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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses. Lessons Learned.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. activities necessary to implement the business model. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense.

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3 Ways To Ensure Your Startup Has A Top-Notch Team

YoungUpstarts

Organizations that made strong investments in talent development outperformed the S&P 500 by 15 percent over two years, according to a study performed by Laurie Bassi, CEO of Bassi Investments, for KnowledgeAdvisors (which has since been acquired by CEB). Your business plan needs to set the course for how you invest in your team.

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What to Expect When Developing an App in 2021

Up and Running

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. Read the Geography of Software Development Outsourcing for guidance. If you’re just starting from scratch, it can be difficult to develop financials for your mobile app. Before diving into app development, do the research.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. Teaching in Chile. Valaparaiso houses. Entrepreneurship and innovation in what I call “Chilecon Valley” is being talked about continually here.

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