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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

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. Customer Segments change over time. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Part 8: When Customers Make You Smarter : Customer Discovery in Digital Health. Here’s their 2 minute video summary.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

They’ve found product/market fit (what products customers want to buy). They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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

Steve Blank

This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. They worked on understanding their partners. The Nine Teams Present.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

It would make a lot of sense for someone else to just come along and build our hardware and sell our software without paying for 15 people doing development and engineering, but nobody did that. Whether or not the new distribution models ultimately took off, its a good bet that the world would be a little less red today.

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

maplebutter.com

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. The right people are potential customers – ask them if they have the problem. Initial developer: partner or hired?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. IP Location Tools. free, distributed source code control management system. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy.