Customer Development Engineer Incubator Management 
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. There’s a much better way.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
—– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
These tools—Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and Business Model design—became the lean start-up methodology , a rigorous approach to testing hypotheses and building prototypes, and, on the basis of data and evidence, adjusting or pivoting to a variant of the original hypothesis. This is a really big idea.
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