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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad class is now taught around the world – and VC’s expect entrepreneurs to talk about not just their technology but their customer development findings. Congratulations class of 2016. The National Science Foundation adopted it. It was amazing to see the movement I started grow and thrive.

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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

The original Innovation Pipeline sketch – 2016. I spent yesterday sifting through the most recent lessons learned and results from a series of accelerators BMNT is running for the intelligence community.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Origins Of Hacking For Defense.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Origins of Hacking For Defense.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. Here’s what our very first landing page looked like in 2016: This landing page wasn’t pretty and broke many copywriting rules in the book. In fact, 76% of marketers plan to produce more content in 2016 compared to 2015 (Content Marketing Institute).

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Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

The combination of the Business Model Canvas, Customer Development and Agile Engineering is an extremely efficient template for the students to follow. Here are four examples from our 2016 Stanford class. Every week the teams present their results. Pair Eyeware. A great competitive Petal diagram is on slide 22.

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. Validate learning by building minimal viable products and getting them in front of customers.