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

Steve Blank

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. Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model. This post is part one. to get hard-earned information.

Lean 307
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Time For Founders School

Steve Blank

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators another source of well produced and curated resources. 0:43: Business Plans versus Business Models. 6:07: Engineering: Waterfall Development in a Large Company vs. Metrics that Matter in a Startup. 0:45: The definition of a startup.

Founder 331
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Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2

Steve Blank

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators with another source of well produced and curated resources. 1:28: Using the Business Model Canvas. 1:49: Use Customer Development to Test Your Hypotheses. 4:24: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources. The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here.

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

Lean 334
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems. More Tools The key difference between this class and previous Lean/I-Corps and Hacking for Defense classes was that Wicked problems required more than just a business model or mission model to grasp the problem and map the solution.

Lean 295
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