Steve Blank

article thumbnail

Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C

article thumbnail

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

I explained that the goal of the Innovation Corps was to bridge what the NSF calls the “ditch of death” – the gap between when NSF research funding runs out and when a team is credible enough (with enough customer and market knowledge) to raise private capital or license/partner with existing companies. Lessons Learned.

America 241