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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. For the past three months, we’ve run an experiment in teaching entrepreneurship. The First Class.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health

Steve Blank

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Healthcare (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. They should start “lean.&#

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am. It was an incubator. It was a very small incubator in Fresno. And so that is continuing to lean in to the present rollout. And so decision making still feels very black and white.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.