Agile, Business Model, Engineer and Incubator

The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. billion U.S.

Incubator

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

Incubator

Incubator Curation Engineer Government

Lead and Disrupt

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next. And they also recognize that simply exploiting their existing assets, capabilities, and business models is insufficient for long-term survival.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Agile Business Model

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

Lean

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. We should had done this before assigning the teams to a particular business unit (or had the ability to create a new business unit, or spin the team out of the company).

Programming

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Where is it going?

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. While companies execute business models, startups search for a business model.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review

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

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

Lean

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea

Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. The founders.

Founder

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO

Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. using the business model canvas as the framework. in order to validate/invalidate their business model hypotheses.

Lean

Lean Incubator Business Model Channel

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first, the notion of the “ ambidextrous organization ” from O’Reilly and Tushman , posits that companies that want to do continuous innovation need to execute their core business model while innovating in parallel. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

Lean

Lean Management Business Model Incubator

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. At the start of the 21st century, after two decades and 8 startups, I retired and had time to think about how VCs directed their startups using business plans. experiential.

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan

Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Applied engineering (top 10 annual challenges from the mining companies).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital

It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Programming Government

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

300 Teams in Two Years

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers. Lessons Learned.

Lean

Lean Washington Incubator Agile

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Yet this isn’t an incubator. Here are the first five. Team ColorWheels.

Lean

Lean Business Model Agile United States

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Instead, we should first focus on searching for the best business model and validating our assumptions.

Developer

Developer Arizona Lean Business Model

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class.

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

Hacking a Corporate Culture: Stories, Heroes and Rituals in Startups and Companies

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

When any special custom engineering effort was required to match the over-the-top sales commitments (almost every deal), the engineers were treated as heroes as well. Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm. Lessons Learned.

Startup

Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class.

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

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Lead and Disrupt

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

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

Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Learning Through Reflection

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

300 Teams in Two Years

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Startup Tools

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Hacking a Corporate Culture: Stories, Heroes and Rituals in Startups and Companies

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Startup Resources

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