Steve Blank

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Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Some of these were brand new classes while others adapted existing business, design and engineering curricula to utilize the Lean approach. Spend it Wisely. Spread it Widely.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

By the end of the 19 th century mass circulation papers had developed the characteristics that your parents would recognize today—headlines, illustrations, entertaining stories – all designed to shortcut critical thinking, and stir passion and emotion to sell newspapers and, of course, advertising. And that was in New York City.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

All while figuring out how to use any of the new features, menus or rearranged user interface that might have been updated overnight. In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. How do you design for situation awareness ?

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. I have brought my wife in helping with the graphic design so she can be part of it and feel the intensity and fun. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Now they’re even older. Balance is important. It’s not easy.

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You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur

Steve Blank

As immigrants their biggest dream was opening a small grocery store on the Lower East Side of New York City, which they did in 1939. The company established their new PC division (called Entry Systems), as a Skunk Works in Boca Raton Florida a 1000 miles from IBM headquarters.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 6: Al Milukas, and Zahra Aljabri and James Faghmous

Steve Blank

As a new founder, Al will be calling the perseverance he used to make it in radio. Here’s how he knew he’d finally won his father over: Probably when I got the New York City job, because he knew what a big market it was. … Steve : Was it designed to be a Minimum Viable Product? ” Zahra : A landing page.