Customer Development Early Stage Incubator Partner 
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Fast forward to today.
Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
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. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc.
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David Teten
MARCH 28, 2012
The company teams they work with are usually highly motivated entrepreneurs trying to engage in extensive product and customer development efforts for a product they don’t typically have a full vision of, for a customer whose needs are opaque, and for a use case which is ambiguous.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 30, 2014
However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context. Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). And do your customer development.
Steve Blank
MARCH 7, 2012
Yet this isn’t an incubator. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Our goal is to teach them the art, science and strategy of entrepreneurship that will forever change how they view early stage ventures.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs). Innovation Clusters.
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