Customer Development Early Stage Framework Incubator 
Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Fast forward to today. Lessons Learned.
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David Teten
MARCH 28, 2012
The company teams they work with are usually highly motivated entrepreneurs trying to engage in extensive product and customer development efforts for a product they don’t typically have a full vision of, for a customer whose needs are opaque, and for a use case which is ambiguous.
Steve Blank
JULY 1, 2014
Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an I-Corps incubation process. Incubation.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Only if you’re doing it with the intention to learn about the market and customers. A few nuggets. 1) Hire A’s.
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