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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

Today the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class ( I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Life Science. The results from the UCSF Lean LaunchPad Life Science class showed us that the future of commercialization in Life Sciences is Lean – it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. The teams that took the Lean Launchpad class – get ready for this – had a 60% success rate.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S. The SBIR/STTR program.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. 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. If you can’t see the video of Palmer Luckey click here. Presentation Format.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. government is the biggest spender and the biggest investor in research and development in the world. And some of it could be in development. So essentially, the government invests in both (research), and (development).”

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

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. Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class. Origins of the class.