Customer Development Finance Incubator Operations 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. Finnish private investors don’t yet have enough time-in-grade to have developed good pattern recognition skills, and most lack operating backgrounds.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. And if they’re smart they’ll teach Horizon 1 teams to operate with mission and intent , not just process and procedure.). Fast forward to today.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and blogs at steveblank.com. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. This is a big idea.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 30, 2014
understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. identify financing vehicles before you need them. This user/customer-centered approach is a huge step in the right direction in the life science/health care commercialization.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. Use Cases/ Concept of Operations. Who are the customers? There were no requirements for the innovator. Legal issues.
ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development. The long tail apps can easily be ported to or developed on Google App Engine in a third of the time and cost using OrangeScape as an application platform. Enter OrangeScape.
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