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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. How Venture Studios Work.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. When you leave the class, you’ll know how to think about your startup in the now standard “language” of the business model canvas.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

Today’s topic was T he Challenges of Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare. We built up a system to produce a certain type of military power at a time when that whole business model is being disrupted and undermined — much as Blockbuster Video’s business model was undermined by Netflix and Apple.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Mission-driven entrepreneurship is the answer to students who say, “I want to give back. Stay tuned.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Followers of the Customer Development process know that you can’t start selling until you have transformed product, customer and other hypotheses into a validated business model and sales roadmap.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models. They are excellent sources of information, especially business insights and strategies. It is fascinating to see how trends develop in Asia and America and how similar yet different they are. #2

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