Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The playbook describes the three pillars of corporate innovation: Innovation Portfolios, Innovation Programs and a Culture of Innovation. Explore: Search for new value propositions and business models by designing and testing new business ideas rather than execution. . Do your leaders get excited about the wrong innovation programs?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And they were the ones who had given the program office the requirements from the outset. That meant that program offices were only accountable to a list of requirements, which were locked early. One will focus on design, execution, and measurement of therapy sessions – building on the original Xbox Kinect work.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Their seniors just completed the school’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in evidence-based entrepreneurship. One of their mentors, a professional UX designer, encouraged the kids, “You have the facts. Hawken School has now given us an answer. — Teaching students to think like entrepreneurs not accountants.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

For the last two and a half years, the teams that were part of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps were those who wanted to learn how to commercialize their science, applied to join the program, fought to get in and went through a grueling three month program. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

When Harvard started the MBA program there were no graduate-level business textbooks. While MBA programs proliferated during the first half of the 20th century, they focused on teaching management of existing companies. By 1991 there were 57 undergraduate and 22 MBA programs. There were no classes on how to start a business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Many agencies outsource product development to private contractors, leaving the government with mostly process people – who write requirements, and oversee acquisition, program management, and contracts. that result in innovation theater.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. The National Institutes of Health has adopted our class for its I-Corps @ NIH program starting this October. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. wouldn’t interfere. As a nation the U.S.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Now everyone can do design,” was the mantra. Users quickly learned how hard it was do design well (yes.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And now that we have those structures built and we have the staffs designed, almost all those trades are done.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

The inspection- system GM decided to use it for his fourth-generation system, an 18-month program. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. We followed that with an hour-long design review, including disclosure of product limitations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” The I-Corps Incubator Program. The mentors in our program are there to support the methodology, but aren’t there to tell stories.). billion U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

Instead, iterative design approaches dominate software design. The design principles that drive software companies are fundamentally different than those that drive industrial organizations. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. Time is not on our side in the South China Sea.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Slides 10-13). Institutional inertia is a social problem.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. wouldn’t interfere. As a nation the U.S.

Technology 228

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. He just hired Meg Whitman. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. The result?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( Incentive programs need to tie together the new acquisition’s continued success and the rest of the company. Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2014

The curriculum draws from Philadelphia University’s design, engineering, and business disciplines, as all are needed to make innovation relevant in the government. The program is built around five core innovation practices that we teach: Integrated Design Processes – The process of opportunity finding, innovation and problem solving.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Designed by the Navy’s OPS-20-G team and built at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, this same Computing Machine Lab would build ~25 other types of electromechanical and optical machines , some the size of a room with 3,500 tubes , to assist in breaking Japanese and German codes. The company hit the ground running. Costing $250,000 ($3.2

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons at this point.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

This month we’ve crossed ~ 300 teams in the first two years through the program. It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. in Science or Nature.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

This week the 8 teams spoke to 106 beneficiaries (users, program mangers, etc.), Next time we’ll designate a primary and secondary sponsor – the pace of this course requires this. To the military vehicle Program Manager? We just held our second week of the Hacking for Defense class. Who are the other beneficiaries?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. For the last two decades there was no standard definition. It’s called the Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Now, 4 years after I arrived at BerkeleyHaas, we don’t teach business plan writing in any of our entrepreneurship classes or in any of our dozens of programs and competitions. Seeing Is Believing. The Business Plan is Dead.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Innovation and entrepreneurship programs in most schools use experienced business practitioners as lecturers or adjunct faculty to teach some or all of their classes. In research universities with entrepreneurship programs adjuncts are typically founders, VC’s or business executives. Enhanced reputation of the center and its program.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. As part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, NYU was responsible for training our country’s top scientists – and they’ve taught 170 of them so far. Spend it Wisely.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

This week the 8 teams spoke to 106 beneficiaries (users, program mangers, etc.), Next time we’ll designate a primary and secondary sponsor – the pace of this course requires this. To the military vehicle Program Manager? We just held our second week of the Hacking for Defense class. Who are the other beneficiaries?

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Social Media Customer Programming Video 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2020

As a thought experiment , how would we design a recovery that protected the old but required minimal restricting of our economy and a rapid return to normal? As states loosen shelter-in-place restrictions, mixing young versus old as we reopen restaurants, live entertainment (theaters, concerts, sports venues,) crowded office buildings etc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries.

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