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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual.

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Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Steve Blank

———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups.

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

Steve Blank

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. what distribution channel? Customer Segment : Owners/administrators of large green spaces (golf courses, universities, etc.) Channel : Mowing and agricultural equipment dealers. This post is part two. Stay tuned.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. They have learned to function in a permanent state of chaos.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The result, startups now have tools that speed up the search for customers, reduce time to market and slash the cost of development.

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