Business Model Design Government Incubator 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. The I-Corps Incubator Program.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. There’s a much better way.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. When you leave the class, you’ll know how to think about your startup in the now standard “language” of the business model canvas.
Up and Running
APRIL 8, 2015
A business in its early stages can often use a leg up, whether in the form of wise words from a mentor or an introduction to a strategic partner. This is where incubators come in. Incubators were designed to fill the gap between knowledge and connections. Incubators provide that very important sense of community.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. What we’ve learned is that while companies execute business models, startups search for a business model.
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