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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

through the Lean Launchpad class. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school. Principal Investigator: Walter Besio University of Rhode Island. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology. Concentric Technology.

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Brown University Talk

Steve Blank

One of the things I did was to speak to the startup community in Providence Rhode Island at Brown University. 11:40: How the Lean Startup began. 14:06: The three pillars of Lean. 20:10: Customer Development is an art. The talk is here. It’s worth a listen. 7:54: How we used to build startups.