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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Steve Blank

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. 2) Get the teams out of the building to test their hypotheses with prospective customers. Teaching Objectives. Acknowledgements.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health

Steve Blank

Examples of these applications include: remote patient monitoring, analytics/big data (aggregation and analysis of clinical, administrative or economic data), hospital administration (software tools to run a hospital), electronic health records (clinical data capture), and wellness (improve/monitor health of individuals). Regulatory Issues.

Startup 294
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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21: Grant Warner

Steve Blank

Additionally, he is the co-founder of ConnectYard , a social analytics platform for e-learning platforms. He is also a co-founder of XediaLabs , a DC-based incubator that provides training and technical consulting to local startups. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

This results not in innovation, but in Innovation Theater – lots of coffee cups, press releases, incubators and false hopes, but no real disruptive changes. Now they’ve realized that the SAR data and analytics is the business. Horizon 3 organizations require Horizon 3 leadership (with Horizon 1 second in command.).

San Diego 142
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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland 326
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