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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. After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x But customers didn’t agree.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

And they’re getting a handle on what it costs to build a company to deliver it. If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), The Left side of the Canvas.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.