Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Now, 4 years after I arrived at BerkeleyHaas, we don’t teach business plan writing in any of our entrepreneurship classes or in any of our dozens of programs and competitions. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley-wide.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity. It Takes a Village.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2012

If you want a preview of what I’ll be talking about, Steve Blank , the successful entrepreneur and brilliant brain behind the Customer Development idea, has an outstanding and thorough (like everything Steve does) review of Startup Communities up on his site. MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program Results.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. He offered context for the government’s innovation efforts: The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.

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