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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad class is now taught around the world – and VC’s expect entrepreneurs to talk about not just their technology but their customer development findings. Congratulations class of 2016. The National Science Foundation adopted it. It was amazing to see the movement I started grow and thrive.

Lean 221
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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

The original Innovation Pipeline sketch – 2016. I spent yesterday sifting through the most recent lessons learned and results from a series of accelerators BMNT is running for the intelligence community.

Curation 344
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Origins Of Hacking For Defense.

Lean 385
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. 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. Origins of Hacking For Defense.

Oakland 301
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Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

The combination of the Business Model Canvas, Customer Development and Agile Engineering is an extremely efficient template for the students to follow. Here are four examples from our 2016 Stanford class. Every week the teams present their results. Pair Eyeware. A great competitive Petal diagram is on slide 22.

Lean 120
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

Lean 177
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

Lean 177