Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Technology in search of a market. Here’s how that happened.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early entrants get sold to corporate acquirers at inflated prices for their teams, their technology, and their tools. Shiny Object meets First Mover Advantage.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. set up the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) to use thousands of civilian scientists in universities to build advanced technology weapons (radar, rockets, sonar, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. Academics, consultants, incubators. see the previous post.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

He also believes that startups often have an advantage in using technological advances to help them innovate customer experiences. “In In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early entrants get sold to corporate acquirers at inflated prices for their teams, their technology, and their tools. Shiny Object meets First Mover Advantage.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Team ColorWheels.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. Interview highlights: How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving? Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship. .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency? In addition, companies and agencies have set up I nnovation Outposts (most often located in Silicon Valley) to be closer to relevant technology and then to invest, partner or buy.

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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. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. He was the CEO of two startups.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Over the last 40 years Technology investors have learned that the success of startups are not just about the technology but “it’s about the team.”. We spent a year screwing it up in our Lean LaunchPad classes until we figured out it was about having the right team. As many teams as most startup incubators.). Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Hiring startup engineers? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. 1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. 1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. Ways to think about watches – crowdspring.co/1wpIpQT.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

I spent a few days in March in Ann Arbor Michigan as a guest of Professor Thomas Zurbuchen , Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs, and Doug Neal , Director of Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School at the University of Michigan. The Engineering School has 5,600 undergrads and 3,000 graduate students.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. 21 st Century Frogman. Sign up here.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Healthcare (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. The sponsorship will double the reach of Women 2.0's and that creates jobs."

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators and Accelerators. One of the best definitions in the book is when Feld articulates the difference between an incubator and an accelerator. An incubator provides year-round physical space, infrastructure and advice in exchange for a fee (often in equity.) There is no guaranteed funding.

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