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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. While I had managed to persuade two great VC’s to teach the class with me ( Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-ko ), what if I was wasting their time?

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) Well, half of it.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. Free: Startup Tools. Specific links are: A list of startup tools is here. agile engineering. Find it here.

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If You Want To Start a Business Start Here

Up and Running

I have been able to curate a list of free online courses, videos, webinars, and other useful resources that should give you the confidence boost to get out there and get started. It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. For the most part, it’s down to lack of confidence.