Customer Development Incubator Networking Partner 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.
Steve Blank
MAY 19, 2021
They then incubated and delivered a solution that will help get large vessels back to sea faster, potentially saving the Navy $20M-$30M a year. Connectors – who will help teams rapidly grow their networks to gain new insights from unique partners not yet discovered.
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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. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc.
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. Entrepreneurs please click here.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2012
Mentors are recommended by the Principal Investigator (who has worked with them in the past) or they may be a member of the NSF I-Corps Mentor network. The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2010
Second, and full disclosure, I’ve invested in a few of these funds ; and third my teaching partner Ann Miura-Ko is a partner in one of these funds. Quickly iterate the product in front of customers. YCombinator, Techstars, et al, have been described as incubators but in reality they are the new “Lean Angels.” Lean Angels.
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