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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Hershey plans to operate Krave as a standalone business within its Hershey North America division. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. Customer Development Teaching'

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean 120
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. And we will build a knowledge base of DOD/IC acquisition primers, customer development best practices, org charts, etc. What Would We Change?

Agile 120
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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. …By creating the BUILDUP VC incubator and accelerator … we’re got into the business of providing education and access. You have to put yourself out there. And it’s a culture issue. .

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.