Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2023
In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) As Wicked and Lean seem to be mutually exclusive, this was a pretty audacious undertaking. The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 11, 2020
A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. As the head of the U.S.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 17, 2017
We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 14, 2013
I’ve been involved with technology product design in one form or another for nearly 25 years and seen one mistake consistently repeated. ” Most technologists design for themselves and then test with uncorrelated user groups only months after product launch – if ever. Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro.
Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. 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. OK, somehow we got them interested.
Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2019
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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