Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. Only in California!

Lean 261

Lean Business Model Agile United States 261

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

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. Teams have to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week.) However, going through the customer development process showed me the danger in that kind of thinking.

Lean 274

Lean New York City New York Customer Development 274

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. Prior to that, he worked for an integrated trading company in which he built several new businesses by collaborating with high-tech startups in California. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

That’s two free drinks on this particular one-way trip from New York to California, a $10 value (although not worth suing over ). If that’s just too complex a challenge for the state of the art in 2012, how about at least accepting PayPal ? On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero.

Customer 143

Customer Southern California San Jose Marketing 143

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

In 2012 the NSF will put 150 teams of the best scientists in the U.S. In-between the 2011 pilot class and the first NSF class of 2012, I got a call from Congressman Dan Lipinski. Principal Investigator: Ellis Meng University of Southern California. Principal Investigator: Jacob Schmidt University of California-Los Angeles.

America 244

America Rhode Island Southern California Illinois 244