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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers.

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5 Tips for Private Practice Optometrists to Grow Profits This Year

Mike Michalowicz

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. Optometrists should work towards a CEO model where they spend more time working on business development and management. Steve Vargo, OD, MBA is a practice management consultant at IDOC. Learn more here: [link]. Learn more here: [link].

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development, …

Steve Blank

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. We wrote a program managers guide to help leaders inside government organizations use the class to speed up their problem solving process.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), Using the Lean LaunchPad methodology our teams do much more than just build a product or understand customer problems/needs. We just held our eighth and ninth weeks of the Hacking for Defense class. WEEK 8 Presentation.

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The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development, …

Steve Blank

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. We wrote a program managers guide to help leaders inside government organizations use the class to speed up their problem solving process.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.