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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.