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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.

Startup 335
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The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Now we understood that the strategy for startups was to first search for a business model and then after you found it, put together an operating plan. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made.

Lean 318
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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer. Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? One team closed a $200k seed round in the middle of the class. Lessons Learned.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer. Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? One team closed a $200k seed round in the middle of the class. Lessons Learned.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

To discover radically new applications for digital tech what’s needed is taking a comprehensive look across all operations. All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that.