Customer Development, Developer, IP and Lean

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source

Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them.

Lean

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

Lean

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.)

Programming

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. They learned a ton.

Lean

Lean Customer Development IP Agile

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) Therefore we developed a class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product. to optimize this search. What’s Different About the Class?

Wiki

Wiki Lean Management Business Model

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

They know the activities, resources and partners (manufacturing, regulation, IP, supply chain, etc.) – and the costs to deliver the product/service and have well defined product development and product management tools that emphasize the linear nature of shipping products to existing customers.

Widget

Widget Lean Business Model Metrics

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

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Any IP you need to license? We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

South Dakota

South Dakota Business Model Lean United States

Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Starting with Facebook s developer program, social networks are all jumping on the apps bandwagon. Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? In other words, not very much.

San Francisco

San Francisco Social Network Lean Continuous Deployment

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

After I retired, I began teaching Customer Development , a theory of how to reduce early stage risk in entrepreneurial ventures. Raising Money Using Customer Development……… 47. The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy………… 65. Customer Development Manifesto.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Customer Development IP Developer

Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

Vertical

Vertical Silicon Valley Intellectual Property RSS

How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

Lean

Lean Startup Agile Coder

The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. Which brings us to BDSM (BusDevSalesMktg) formula.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Should I require and NDA?

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review

Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

This would of course be in regards toa single corporation which holds all the IP and revenue.). Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development. Personas for Customer Development. Customer Development (27). Lean startup (26). The 3 Best Tools for Mockups and Wireframes. Categories. Funding (1).

Sweat Equity

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. As you can imagine, this was a lucrative customer segment. I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. my Developer Tokens already answer the question for me.

Community

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StartUpRoar

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Trending Sources

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

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

Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

Startup Resources

The cardinal sin of community management

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