Customer Development Programming SBIR Technical Review 
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. – The Torch Program. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. – The Torch Program. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 21, 2013
In the real world a big pivot in life sciences far down the road of development is a very bad sign due to huge sunk costs. Other pivots involved moving from a platform technology to become a product supplier, moving from a therapeutic drug to a diagnostic or moving from a device that required a PMA to one that required a 510(k).
Steve Blank
JUNE 19, 2014
Over the last two and a half years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 300 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for commercial success. It’s open to NIH SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grantees. Application are due by August 7th (details are here.).
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. How would customer interviews work via video?
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Student Feedback. He runs H4X Labs.
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