Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 306

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Lean Security Asia SBIR 394

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

Oakland 271

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 271

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

And the odds of learning from faculty who actually had experienced the chaos and uncertainty of building a startup was low. Can you learn entrepreneurship without taking an experiential hands-on class or better, actually be part of a startup? It wasn’t really part of the job as an educator.

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

11:54) Raylene on how USDR has been built like a startup and the exponential rate of growth. (12:44) She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52)

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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. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327