Agile, Customer Development and Incubator

The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. The Innovation Corps – Using the Lean LaunchPad as an Incubator for Scientists and Engineers. This week we saw the results.

Incubator

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean

10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. And you’ll learn about how to build a minimal viable product to get feedback early and often from customers.

Startup

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

Lean

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

Programming

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property

A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. This post is part one.

Lean

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an I-Corps incubation process. Incubation. Lessons Learned.

Incubator

Incubator Curation Engineer Government

Lead and Disrupt

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

These tools—Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and Business Model design—became the lean start-up methodology , a rigorous approach to testing hypotheses and building prototypes, and, on the basis of data and evidence, adjusting or pivoting to a variant of the original hypothesis.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Agile Business Model

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation.

Lean

Lean Management Business Model Incubator

Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. entrepreneurship is experiential and requires theory and a ton of practice. Every week the teams present their results.

Lean

Lean Incubator Business Model Channel

It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

A decade later, I began to teach the foundations of Lean, first at UC Berkeley (Customer Development) and then at Stanford using cases and business plans. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. experiential.

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan

Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. This is a big idea.

IRR

IRR Startup Business Model Agile

Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Key attributes of an entrepreneur on a founding team are passion, determination, resilience, tenacity, agility and curiosity. Most startups that fail over team issues fail because co-founders hadn’t dated first, (spent time together in a Startup Weekend , worked together in an incubator , etc.) And what is critical is trust.

Cofounder

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership

Hacking 4 Recovery

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Next, you’ll use customer development to virtually get out of the classroom and talk to 10-15 customers/ partners each day to validate whether your assumptions are correct, and to see whether anyone other than you would want/use your product or service. Signup at the website at [link]. Summer Startup Accelerators.

Lean

Lean Business Model Affiliate Incubator

The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. It’s because the startups are doing something very new that make them “Lean&# : These startups embrace customer and agile development that Eric Ries has been evangelizing. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

Lean

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital

One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. It offers 35 entrepreneurship courses. Not My Problem.

Michigan

Michigan Silicon Valley Venture Capital Incubator

300 Teams in Two Years

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S.

Lean

Lean Washington Incubator Agile

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. The premise of the class is that startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known.

Lean

Lean Business Model Agile United States

Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Align and train mentors to embrace customer development. Undergraduates can handle the class.

Developer

Developer Arizona Lean Business Model

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup Angel Investor

Kauffman Foundation Sponsorship Gives Major Boost to Women 2.0's Founder Labs

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Diverse Founding Teams, Agile Development Techniques.

Founder

Founder Incubator Cofounder Lean

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition

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

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

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. This is an opportunity for business women to get away for the weekend, incubate ideas, rally resources, access peer mentoring, and network with other entrepreneurs.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. 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. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego

Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan.

Channel

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley

When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. The team demonstrated awesome agility and resilience as they scrambled to get a new manufacturing partner while continuing to do customer discovery and validation – and run their company.

North America

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21 st century. What Would We Change?

Agile

Agile Security Audio Video

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). And do your customer development. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words.

San Francisco

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean

New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Use some customer development to find out. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning. SW Courses.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Israel Startup

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. These angels make lots of early bets and double-down when early results appear.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review

The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

Loved it and great speaker, but disagree with portrayal of agile only dealing with known problems #leanstartup Im really interested in perspectives on this point. For example, the agile practice of an in-house customer or product owner that can make authoritative prioritization decisions seems like it doesnt translate very well to startups.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup

Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday I recently agreed to join Facebook s fbFund incubator as a mentor. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.);

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley San Jose Puerto Rico

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs. Thus, these pages.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Trending Sources

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Lead and Disrupt

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Learning Through Reflection

It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Why Companies are Not Startups

Building Great Founding Teams

Hacking 4 Recovery

The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

300 Teams in Two Years

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

Kauffman Foundation Sponsorship Gives Major Boost to Women 2.0's Founder Labs

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

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

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Building a new startup hub

New conference website, speakers, agenda

Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Resources

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up

Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Startup Tools

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

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