Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. It’s the best of America and it opens doors sometimes when our policies may actually shut them or keep them closed. .

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North Korea SEC Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 133

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Detroit 120

Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. program to become an entrepreneur: …I was on my way to the Ph.D… So I started my PhD program.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder India Entrepreneur Maryland 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

So much so that the NSF decided to scale the Innovation Corps program. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology.

America 244

America Rhode Island Southern California Illinois 244

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 277

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

Silicon Valley 193

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 193

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? for Harvard Business Revie.

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San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2016

I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. You can’t rely on anybody else. . I didn’t fit. I’m entrepreneurial and creative.

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Entrepreneur Fort Worth America Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

I believe the only way to improve our chances as entrepreneurs is to develop a working theory of entrepreneurship. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers.

San Francisco 122

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 122

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Six teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations.

Southern California 181

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 181

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. At this size the program will provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. What Were Our Goals for this Class?

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Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. And that’s just on Monday.

Lean 164

Lean Government Agile Africa 164

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2012

If you want a preview of what I’ll be talking about, Steve Blank , the successful entrepreneur and brilliant brain behind the Customer Development idea, has an outstanding and thorough (like everything Steve does) review of Startup Communities up on his site. MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program Results.

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Community Chicago Startup America 132

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. . America is full of entrepreneurs, inventor and dreamers. We need to continue that. He saw the movie, “Field of Dreams.”

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Washington Government 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. And that’s just on Monday.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. You can see the design of the program here.

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DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Each week, teams will use the Mission Model Canvas (a DOD/IC variant of the Business Model Canvas ) to develop a set of initial hypotheses about a solution to the problem and will get out of the building and talk to all Requirement Writers, Buyers (Acquisition project managers) and Users (the tactical folks). Sign up here.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

How startup ideas are developed and nurtured was the focus of conversations with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. In America, I think it’s money; if you can make money from your illness, then you are deemed a genius. . Pat Sullivan. Sebastian : There is.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Channel Programming Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? We learned a lot developing the Hacking for Defense class, and even more as we taught it and worked with the problem sponsors in the DOD/Intel community.

Silicon Valley 129

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 129

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Without lobbyists or PACs, were getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act - this year - to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

San Francisco 143

San Francisco Video DC Continuous Deployment 143

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? We learned a lot developing the Hacking for Defense class, and even more as we taught it and worked with the problem sponsors in the DOD/Intel community.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. There’s almost $2 billion spent in North America on paying to play basketball. We knew we could do that.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur North America Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco DC Washington Startup 113

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). More locations are being added as we can confirm them.

San Francisco 97

San Francisco South Africa Spain North America 97

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows that pushed them forward. Send an email to terri@kandsranch.com describing your entrepreneurial journey, Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Carolina Cofounder Entrepreneur 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco 107

San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa 107

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Like all government programs, the SBIC was fond of paperwork, but it began to formalize, professionalize and standardize the way investors evaluated risk.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 128

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. As you can imagine, this was a lucrative customer segment. No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The car had become part of your personal identity while it became a symbol of 20th Century America. Nothing super new here, but a well put together lessons on industries, marketing, and customer development. Each had its particular cachet, status and admirers. People had heated arguments about who made the best brand.

America 31

America Customer Development Media Cost 31