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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Just a crazy idea two years ago, the class is now taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech, Princeton and for the National Science Foundation at the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. My team had already successfully adopted lean operational processes in a very large manufacturing-like process, as well as early agile ideas.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

View from Seed

For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions. EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco.

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Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Steve Blank

———– 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. Lessons Learned.

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Mission Creep: How Nonprofits Can Stay True to Their Missions

Board Effect

Nonprofit Quarterly points to an example of mission creep at a Detroit, Michigan nonprofit that recognized mission creep was occurring and eventually turned things around successfully. Focus started to lean too heavily on housing which was only a part of their original mission. Focus: Hope was founded in 1967 by Father William T.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.”