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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. . The Lean LaunchPad is now being taught in over 100 universities.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. Knox was a great example of having a technology in search of a customer. Part 2: medical devices and digital health.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.)

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. failure in searching for innovation when there are many unknowns.

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Startup Resources

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Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Codeacademy.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I find it appalling and almost frightening that secondlife seams to be preparing to fully open a grid financially supported by mostly over 30's who have money and spend it, to teens who have NO money and such plans are creating restrictive traffic flows in an already problematic search function. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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