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. Demo Days Versus Lesson Learned Presentations. Everything depends on a demo, presentation and speaking style.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. . – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.
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Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2021
By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. It Started with an Idea.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2019
Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it. What does it take to get from that demo into your engineering group, to be delivered as a product into your existing sales channel?
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2010
There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) Many entrepreneurship courses focus on teaching students “how to write a business plan.” This class is not about how to write a business plan. to optimize this search.
Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 4th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.
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