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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. The National Institutes of Health has adopted our class for its I-Corps @ NIH program starting this October. Lessons Learned.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI): The assigned PD/PI on the SBIR/STTR Phase I award. We’re taking the class we taught at UCSF and creating an even better version for the NIH. (I’ll

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

Steve Blank

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 One of the fundamental benefits of being so active in building the FoundersPad accelerator (a 12-week, Lean Startup program focused on customer development) is working with the cohort participants on refining their business models. The Bend Experience.

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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

Inside of companies these are the mavericks you want to fire for not getting with program. When a Horizon 2 or 3 program finds success, it can either grow on its own (and hence become their own divisions) or the founders and early employees may get folded back into a Horizon 1 organization that will scale the program.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. and all our other tools for educators here.

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