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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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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.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. Air Force Customer Development Lean LaunchPad'

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

They’re better than large companies at identifying customer needs/problems and finding product/market fit by pivoting rapidly. Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). However, I needed to actually build it!

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Fly High

Steve Blank

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. Air Force Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. North Korea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy. Sign up here.