Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

As we thought about how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so. That year we launched both Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Diplomacy (with Professor Jeremy Weinstein and the State Department) at Stanford.

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Lean Security Asia Oakland 394

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. One of our primary goals in establishing this framework was to keep the user front and center, and to quickly deliver solutions to their challenges. Always Be Shipping.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. One of our primary goals in establishing this framework was to keep the user front and center, and to quickly deliver solutions to their challenges. Always Be Shipping.

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Framework Lean Metrics Government 323

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

But it lacked a framework for testing all commercialization hypotheses outside of the building. Build, Measure, Learn is a great improvement over Waterfall product development and provided the framework to truly join the customer to agile development. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Connect the UI to a web application framework (for example, Node.js , Rubyon Rails , Django , SproutCore , Jquery , Symfony , Sencha , etc.). Create online surveys with Wufoo or Zoomerang. Get feedback on your MVP features and U/I. Step 6: Build a more complete solution ( Connect the U/I to code).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

Alexander Osterwalder ‘s inspired approach to defining the business model in his book Business Model Generation provide a framework for the Customer Development and the search for facts behind the hypotheses that make up a new venture. He called the combination “ The Lean Startup ” and wrote a great book with that name.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence , Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator.

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Lean Technical Review Government Programming 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2020

The Market Opportunity Navigator is a framework for this identification process. Winners in this new normal will be able to quickly understand. what are their company’s core competencies/abilities, and. the new market needs where their competencies/abilities could be used.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development. The Market Opportunity Navigator provides a visual framework to discover, compare and prioritize different market domains and business contexts. The Market Opportunity Navigator is an easy-to-apply framework for this process.

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Lean Marketing Agile Customer Development 333

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The framework of the class looks like this: Life Science/Health Care is not a single Category. We get back together as one group and the instructors share what they learned as they compare and contrast the differences between therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health. One of the reasons I teach is because of how much I learn.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. Or was the business model/customer development framework just smoke, mirror and B.S.? (The slides below and the syllabus " target="_blank">here describe the details of the class.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

But until now I haven’t been able to articulate a framework of why or had a concrete suggestion of what to replace them with. They called back laughing and the invitation disappeared. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Business Plan Versus Business Models.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

My original vision for the class was to use the business model canvas as a framework to teach engineering students all the nine elements of the business model: customer, distribution channel, revenue, get/keep/grow, value proposition, activities, resources, partners and costs. Product/Market Fit Versus The Business Model Canvas.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This framework allows us to parse the pathway, describing the actions and attitudes required at each step along the way. The Inventure Cycle is the foundation of frameworks for innovation and entrepreneurship, such as design thinking and the lean startup methodology. whether a product, service, or work of art?—?results Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Wondering how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so. That year we launched both Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Diplomacy (with Professor Jeremy Weinstein and the State Department) at Stanford.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 306

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Having taught grades 6-12, survived two “tours of duty” as a middle school principal, and designed curriculum for grades 3 and up, it was obvious to me that Steve’s Lean LaunchPad provides an accessible framework for young students to search successfully. We started with a few hypotheses, and iterated and pivoted to a successful program.

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Lean Cleveland Ohio Business Model 311

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2020

The founder had sent him a note, “We’d love to partner with Steve on getting his frameworks and templates from his books – The Four Steps and The Startup Owner’s Manual – onto our product. Here’s why: A few weeks ago I got an email from a VC friend asking me to talk to a founder at one of his startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Clayton Christensen’s Jobs to Be Done framework proposes that focusing solely on customer data leads founders on a wild goose chase. A proper MVP framework, such as our MVP Tree presented here, is a critical first step in fulfilling your mission, even though it might seem like you are selling it short. Step 3: Jobs to Be Done.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

If I were starting a corporate innovation program today, I’d use the Lean LaunchPad classes as the starting framework. However, they need to match a top-level (board, CEO, exec staff) agreement on strategy and structure. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 267

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Reply Andrew , on November 3, 2009 at 3:46 pm Said: Great post Steve — this puts a great framework around what I’ve been thinking through with my current startup. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Done informally as part of an accelerator, yes, but not with a framework based on a clear process and clear pedagogy.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Federal labs like DOE literally have tens of thousands of inventions that they’d like to have vetted for commercial potential, so FedTech students search for a repeatable and scalable business model for those fed lab technologies using the Lean LaunchPad framework.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Our goal, within the constraints of a virtual classroom and a limited amount of time, is to give you a framework to test a business model. It’s not an exercise on how smart you are in a classroom, or how well you use the research to size markets. This class combines theory with a ton of hands-on practice.

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Lean Business Model Affiliate Incubator 436

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

using the business model canvas as the framework. Students watch the lectures as homework via our MOOC. Every week we teach a new part of the theory of how to commercialize an insight or invention. Every week we teach the practice of Lean. in order to validate/invalidate their business model hypotheses.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

We need a much more robust framework that says, if you’re going to have an online system, this is what security means. And so I think that there’s also a regulatory component that says, you have to safeguard yourself using these technologies that we’ve identified. I’ll give you one of my favorite examples.

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Technology Security Internet Video 314

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In the second part of course, we’ll use this framework to examine the military applications of emerging technologies in Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning, and Autonomy.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Asia 370

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Having taught grades 6-12, survived two “tours of duty” as a middle school principal, and designed curriculum for grades 3 and up, it was obvious to me that Steve’s Lean LaunchPad provides an accessible framework for young students to search successfully. We started with a few hypotheses, and iterated and pivoted to a successful program.

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Lean Cleveland Ohio Business Model 203

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

How these ethical frameworks affect America’s ability to compete. What ethical considerations they take into account when making technology investments Whether China and/or Russia have similar or different ethical considerations. Panel 2 – An Application of Autonomy – the Navy Unmanned Task Force.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology Russia China 363

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Along the way, you will actively learn the Lean LaunchPad methodology, the framework first developed for business start-ups. And ultimately, it was the get-your-hands-messy conceit of the whole shebang: Make the cut for this class and we are going to throw you headlong at some major real-world problems put forth by the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

The teams capture their work in the mission model canvas a framework for each week’s activities. And in these last two weeks of class, they learn what activities, resources and partners they’ll need to deliver their solution and derive what it costs to build the company to deliver it.

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Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

When combined with the business model canvas, the Three Horizons of Innovation provide a framework for corporate innovation. They also realize that operating at all three horizons will require them to tolerate and resolve conflicts. Lessons Learned. Corporate Innovation needs Lean tools.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

as well as a potential revenue model (why not start with a framework for revenue?). I think it’s important you and eric are starting to tackle the issue of the ‘other’ business models, and I think this path will eventually converge to a good addition to the customer discovery framework.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

Instructors would care most about effective communication with students (not tools, or frameworks but quality of the engagement with students) – validated. When we decided to hold the online summit, we had three hypotheses: Educators would not only want to attend, but to volunteer and help and learn from each other – validated.

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Lean San Francisco Silicon Valley Florida 421

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator.

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Lean Washington Incubator Agile 264

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Eight weeks in, the students and their State Department mentors are now deeply steeped in the Lean framework, which Steve Blank and his four fellow teachers have modified slightly to the peculiarities of solving problems in the realm of diplomacy.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Eight weeks in, the students and their State Department mentors are now deeply steeped in the Lean framework, which Steve Blank and his four fellow teachers have modified slightly to the peculiarities of solving problems in the realm of diplomacy.

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Silicon Valley Washington Lean United Kingdom 120