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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). understand the core customers and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. gather data essential to customer partnerships/collaboration/purchases before doing the science.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

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. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy. Fast forward to today.

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What’s A Startup? First Principles.

Steve Blank

How do we finance the company, etc. Your job as a founder is to quickly validate whether the model is correct by seeing if customers behave as your model predicts. Most of the time the darn customers don’t behave as you predicted. How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit?

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' An entrepreneurial ecosystem is driven one of two ways; either by a crisis (i.e.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' An entrepreneurial ecosystem is driven one of two ways; either by a crisis (i.e.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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