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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Value Proposition (their company’s product or service.) This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) Let the real learning begin.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what’s the product? what distribution channel? Feeling Good.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Pilot Production Of Large Area Uniform Single-Crystal Graphene Films. Principal Investigator: Stephen DiMagno University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Commercialization of an Engineered Pyrolysis Blanket for the Conversion of Forestry Residues to Soil Amendments and Energy Products. If you can’t see the presentation above, click here.

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