Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks.

Oakland 315

Oakland Asia Lean Video 315

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. What does SBIR Phase I mean, exactly? At Spark Collider, there were 100 companies present that received an initial award from the Department of Defense (DoD)— which denotes them as Phase 1 SBIR Awardees.

SBIR 48

SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. In many cases I look at an SBIR and say "how about I just build that and sell it to you when it's done," but that is unrealistic today. Expo SF (May.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 281

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 281

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation in 2012 to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.)

Southern California 191

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 191