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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Only in California! This team spoke face-to-face with 50+ end users, 3 manufacturers, 25 potential partners, 22 domain experts and surveyed an additional 115 customers. And do it in 8 weeks.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

Davis , a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farm er who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist , four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants. We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Then I would return back north to the much drabber green palette of bombers and uniforms and continue to defend democracy. Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. Reply Ben C. ,

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural. Looking at the green and yellows of the farms, I realized that my life lacked the same colors. How did I miss that? You created it and own it.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Ellis Meng University of Southern California. Principal Investigator: Jacob Schmidt University of California-Los Angeles. SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. Principal Investigator: Karen McDonald University of California-Davis.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Bethnal Green Ventures. California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Customer Development. green tech. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses.