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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

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. Inside of companies these are the mavericks you want to fire for not getting with program. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

There were some great examples of enabling students in Africa to participate in programs from Australia, which had never happened before. Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. It made me think of us as teachers without borders. Breakout Sessions.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.