Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries. Presentation Format. Team: Panacea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2016

I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. Before founding Clean Sleep , he worked for Boeing as a teenager, did mechanical drafting and design for a combustion engineering company, ran a beach volleyball bar with friends and founded Quick Set Concrete. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company. Thanks to Virginie Carmichael, CityGirl’s Design. #10 Thanks to Connie Calabrese, The SignUp Hub. #6

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

This means developing new and innovative ways to think about, organize and build diplomatic strategies and solutions. Hacking for Diplomacy is designed to provide students the opportunity to learn how to work with the Department of State to address urgent foreign policy challenges. State Department and other civilian agencies.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems. They can crowd-source designs, find components through eBay, fund through PayPal, train using virtual worlds and refine tactics, techniques and procedures using massive on-line gaming. Sign up here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

This means developing new and innovative ways to think about, organize and build diplomatic strategies and solutions. Hacking for Diplomacy is designed to provide students the opportunity to learn how to work with the Department of State to address urgent foreign policy challenges. State Department and other civilian agencies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro. She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Without lobbyists or PACs, were getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act - this year - to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. The Ten Most Innovative Companies In America | Forbes – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

. … because there’s something going on over here that you’d love to be involved and have your name next to it … may not be as important as another hour kind of vetting the design with someone you’ve been through it with a hundred times already. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Look at the history of America and what has been the role models or the examples of a way out for a lot of underrepresented entrepreneurs minorities? And it’s a culture issue. . It has been sports and entertainment, not tech.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. We''ve joked that if a startup is an organization in search of a sustainable, repeatable business model, then a big company is an organization designed to perpetuate such a model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? They are nerds.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen is keenly aware of what makes product development different from other business functions, like manufacturing, that we sometimes use as a metaphor. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible. Team New Zealand designed the yacht that won the Americas Cup.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Startup Weekend. Recent Posts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. You can see the design of the program here. Please leave a comment and lets discuss!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. The teams presented in front of several hundred people in person and online.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: For example, like in America, small business is up to 150. They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. ” So I’m looking at it, and the first thing I think is the design is simple. Edwin: Would I be able to attract other people if the design would be different?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we could give customers lower price boards without Engineering spending 12 months to design new ones.) This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

While SBIC’s were set up around the country, companies in Northern California including Bank of America, Firemans Fund and American Express (Reid Dennis of the Group ran theirs), began to set up SBIC funds to tap the emerging microwave and new semiconductor startups setting up shop south of San Francisco. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

He has been a reporter for The New Republic; has written about foreign policy for numerous publications; and is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis. It’s the best of America and it opens doors sometimes when our policies may actually shut them or keep them closed. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

This bill is a reauthorization of the 2010 America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES) Act, which set out policies that govern the NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and federal programs on innovation, manufacturing, and science and math education.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

This bill is a reauthorization of the 2010 America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES) Act, which set out policies that govern the NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and federal programs on innovation, manufacturing, and science and math education.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. It is a stage that must be outgrown.

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