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Moneyball and the Investment Readiness Level-video

Steve Blank

Eric Ries was kind enough to invite me to speak at his Lean Startup Conference. In the talk I reviewed the basic components of the Lean Startup and described how we teach it. 3:36 The 3 Components of the Lean Startup. 6:00 Teaching startups & companies Lean: The Lean LaunchPad class. Additional videos here.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? At first this seemed to be a fatal stake through the heart of the class.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We invest in companies that sell to both enterprise/SMB customers as well as direct to consumers. Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. We have a passion for product and out-of-the-box thinking.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Talent: Each team member needs to have talent – they all need to own their abilities and focus on their assets.