Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? See here for an extended discussion of remote customer discovery.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

Ultimately, I am proud of the many, many small businesses that did not have to close their doors because their fellow LeTip members passed business referrals that led to new customers. As a business, we place a high value on giving people a chance to succeed and earning our customers' trust. They helped keep each other in business!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Since our kids were little our Thanksgiving tradition was to head to Hawaii with friends and eat Thanksgiving dinner under the palm trees to the sound of the waves next to the warm ocean. ( So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Founders get out of the building to talk to customers. While the parallels between a director and a startup founder are striking, what’s even more surprising is the match between the creative process Pixar uses to make its movies and our implementation of Lean for startups in the Lean LaunchPad and I-Corps incubators.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Such adoption of significant technology changes can positively contribute in gaining new customer base while at the same time makes the present customer feel elated about their brand choice, leading to brand loyalty. One can simply get teleported to a beach in Hawaii or on the cliffs to London.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

And so, Hacking for Recovery began, starting first at Stanford and next offered by University of Hawaii for the State of Hawaii. We could offer a 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad / Hacking For Defense / National Science Foundation I-Corps class that’s trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. Here’s how it happened.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Would customers sit for virtual interviews?

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