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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

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. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. This is a big idea. What Does this Mean?

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health

Steve Blank

Recently, the financing of innovation in medical devices has collapsed even further with most Class III devices simply unfundable. on medical device revenues, regardless of profitability delays or cash-flow breakeven. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Company Plugs Gap In Google's Enterprise Solution

ReadWriteStart

Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development. The long tail apps can easily be ported to or developed on Google App Engine in a third of the time and cost using OrangeScape as an application platform. Enter OrangeScape.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. Almost every large organization has some kind of incubator or accelerator program. in developing these new models. Here’s how he’s shaping the future of corporate innovation.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Sometimes youll incubate a bit longer, sometimes shorter.

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