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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. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies.

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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. Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. Secret History of Silicon Valley. Find it here.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. 21 st Century Frogman.

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The History of Lean Planning

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See Also: Lean Planning: A Curated List of Our Best Content. This form of planning condensed the business model onto one page and is most useful for high-growth, technically-focused startups (think Silicon Valley). At the time, we used Business Plan Pro and Basecamp for this.

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11 Excellent Free Online Courses for Entrepreneurs

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In this course, you will explore case studies of real MIT entrepreneurs, as well as perform various exercises that will help you identify and select the right customers for your business. This is not a course per se, but rather a curated collection of articles and videos from resources around the web.