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Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic

Steve Blank

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

That is until 1947 when Myles Mace taught the first entrepreneurship course “Management of New Enterprises” at Harvard Business School. Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Soon others were created.

Lean 436
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Steve Blank

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. Evangelists are unabashed cheerleaders and salespeople for your product and, if you are creating a new market, for your company vision. Here’s how.

Marketing 315
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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. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

Oakland 329
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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Suggestions for Angel Investors - Feld Thoughts , June 2, 2010 I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. Delegate and automate. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. Charles Darwin.

Cofounder 175
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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

New approaches to translational medicine have emerged. Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. In New York there’s Blueprint Health and Startup Health , in Denver there’s Stride and Princeton has Tiger Labs.

San Diego 264
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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

Reinventing the board meeting may allow venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Silicon Valley, New York). Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model.