Customer Development IP Lean Technology 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. The program became large enough that it came time to choose between expanding the program or making it more technology focused and closely tied to corporate R&D.
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.]
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2013
This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. They learned a ton.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2010
We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. Any IP you need to license?
Steve Blank
MAY 3, 2011
The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Any IP you need to license? We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.
Steve Blank
MAY 26, 2009
You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”
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