Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011.

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Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Here’s how.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. New Age VC About This is just a start.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. The cat cafe business model is incredibly new, and as such, there is much less in the way of a road map for these entrepreneurs to follow. How do you open a business unlike any other?

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Portland Entrepreneur United States Oakland 60