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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Part 8: When Customers Make You Smarter –Customer Discovery in Digital Health. And saved millions. Lessons Learned.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They’ve found product/market fit (what products customers want to buy). and how to price the product. That’s now changed.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. For example, Apple needed music from their record label partners to make the original iPod and iTunes experience complete. How many people?

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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Weve got a little funding from VCs. You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. From "Think and Grow Rich". Anyone that thinks they got everything figured out from day one deserves to be called a retard. But losing to competition is also a likely outcome. Isnt it? >>

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