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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

For the teaching team one of the most important ways to track the teams progress was through the weekly blogs we made each team keep. Veritas , was the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine that average homeowners could afford. This week they refined their target market by building a map of potential customers in the U.S.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class. Their hypotheses when they first left the campus were: Value Proposition : Labor costs in mowing and weeding applications are significant, and autonomous implementation would solve the problem. Consider if their business worth pursuing?

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

He had read my blog posts about the NSF Innovation Corps and was interested in how the first class went. Here are some of the final Lessons Learned presentations and team videos: Akara Solutions: Flexible, Low Cost Cooling Technology for LED Lighting. Principal Investigator: Stephen DiMagno University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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