Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

The National Cancer Institute SBIR Development Center , is leading the pilot, with participation from the SBIR & STTR Programs at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute , the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The class is team based.

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Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

Both of these groups, those who took the Innovation Corps class and those who didn’t, applied for government peer-reviewed funding through the SBIR program. The teams that skipped the class and pursued traditional methods of starting a company had an 18% success rate in receiving SBIR Phase I funding.

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SBIR Technical Review Lean Startup 314

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique.

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Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital.

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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266