Steve Blank

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

agile engineering. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress. Here’s Part 2 of Dino’s story….

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

Steve Blank

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.).

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. If you can’t see the Helmsman 2-minute video click her.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

For Biotech: Ben Kirukup – senior biologist US Navy, Ed You – FBI Special Agent Biological Countermeasures Unit, Deborah Rosenblum – Asst Sec of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Joe DeSimone – Professor Chemical Engineering. Team 4: AlphaChem Click here to see the presentation.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Finally we can use the open-source lean classes from the National Science Foundation I-Corps and the Stanford/Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes to run Horizon 3 projects.

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