Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Take a look through the slides below and see how their business model evolved with feedback from customers, channels and partners. What Do You Mean You Only Spoke to 1 Customer? Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

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?

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Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Clips from their interviews are below: Wayne Sutton is a partner and co-founder of BUILDUP VC , a Bay Area non-profit that connects, mentors, and educates underrepresented technology entrepreneurs. Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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.

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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. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47