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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Other sources of capital. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. No investor cares about a business plan.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars.

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