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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology. Principal Investigator: Michael Shur Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Lessons Learned.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day). Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. Its a big burden and very stressful.