Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. universities teaching the Lean LaunchPad curriculum organized as I-Corps “nodes” across the U.S. in Science or Nature. Currently there are 11 U.S. university lab.

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Lean Washington Incubator Agile 266

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? So why you?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. We give out between $2 and $3 billion a year for these startups as 5,000 and 7,000 grants to small businesses doing everything from advance composite materials, space exploration, to IT, mobile security, you name it.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. No other mobile platform or carrier deck under the sun can offer the amount of user attention and time that the App Store does. Expo SF (May.

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74