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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. agile engineering. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. customer development. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here. Find it here.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses. Lessons Learned.

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Customer Development for Web Startups

Steve Blank

Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. In my book, “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany ” I use enterprise software as the business model example.

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Moving At The Speed Of ‘What’s Next’: Subscription Business Models Spur Continuous Innovation

YoungUpstarts

As business models rotate toward subscription services, if technical developments don’t keep pace, a crucial piece of the puzzle will be missing. A perpetual license model also allows for periodic software updates. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them.

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Cloud Is The New Black

YoungUpstarts

Most of their business models wouldn’t be possible without it. He has experience on SAP solutions, Google technologies, open source programming languages and agile development methods, and focuses on innovation for products, services and business models for clients in many areas.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. The second class will be firms with a demonstrated ability to continually innovate and reinvent their business models. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

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.

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