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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. The Innovation Corps – Using the Lean LaunchPad as an Incubator for Scientists and Engineers. This week we saw the results.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. Amazon did not carry it yet, and I was nervous spending money at a website known mostly for cups and t-shirts, completely irrelevant to business books. Evangelizing Customer Development in Japan.

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Watching My Students Grow

Steve Blank

The next week they came back in class and presented this : Each week we’d teach them about one more part of what makes up a business model. Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. Validate learning by building minimal viable products and getting them in front of customers.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. Quickly iterate the product in front of customers. Here’s why.

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