Steve Blank

article thumbnail

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

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. Here’s how that happened.

Lean 315
article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

article thumbnail

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. The convergence of digital trends along with the rise of China and globalization has upended the rules for almost every business in every corner of the globe.

article thumbnail

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. .

article thumbnail

Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle.

article thumbnail

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs). Innovation Clusters. Lessons Learned.