Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. As the head of the U.S.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

That’s because they require you to have a deep understanding of your customers. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. To run this experiment, Airbnb created what Lean Startup calls a curated minimum viable product. But they are. This gets to the deliberate nature of the actions we want to take.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. I’ve been reaching out to such users in the startup community and have gotten very positive feedback so far. Curate great links for your ideal customers and share them 3 times per day. Curated by Dan Martell. What are the other essentials?

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

If you don’t have customers, our articles on customer development & writing compelling copy when you don’t have any customers , to help you to start getting people to buy. Recommended Reading: It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. Google+ Communities. Facebook Groups.

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