Steve Blank

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.)

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

Steve Blank

assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2

Steve Blank

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Chicago) through the Lean LaunchPad process. These ‘pracademics’ proved to be some of the biggest innovators in entrepreneurship education.). Seeing Is Believing. Clearly, lean works globally. And we’ve been part of the U.S.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Stanford designed Klystrons producing 2½ Megawatts were manufactured by Varian and Litton would power the radar in the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) built at the height of the cold war.) They quickly went into production at Sylvania Electronic Defense Labs down the street in Mountain View and Hallicrafters in Chicago.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Sunny Shah and Curt Haselton

Steve Blank

There were a couple streets, the meat district of Chicago, and I just started knocking on doors. Engineers care about the design of the building, absolutely, but they’re not the ones with the money on the line. Those are the people insuring the buildings and underwriting the mortgages for the buildings. They care more.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Sunny Shah and Curt Haselton

Steve Blank

There were a couple streets, the meat district of Chicago, and I just started knocking on doors. Engineers care about the design of the building, absolutely, but they’re not the ones with the money on the line. Those are the people insuring the buildings and underwriting the mortgages for the buildings. They care more.

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