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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. Lessons Learned.

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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. (So Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Out of all my ideas I think this is the one I think would be the most fun to work on, from development to marketing. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

This is lean development without any customer development. You may have existing code lying around from earlier projects, or be able to use open-source components or libraries to make your life easier. However, this will impact the value of your IP. The focus is on building. Create Buzz.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

This would of course be in regards toa single corporation which holds all the IP and revenue.). Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development. Personas for Customer Development. Customer Development (27).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). IP Location Tools.