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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Our system is not designed to do that. Our system is designed to try to predict the future in ten, 20 or 30 years.

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

you make substantive changes to one or more parts of your initial business model, and this new data affects your biological and clinical hypotheses. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. It’s open to NIH SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grantees. The class is team based.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

What we found is that during the class almost all of them pivoted - making substantive changes to one or more of their business model canvas components. Both of these groups, those who took the Innovation Corps class and those who didn’t, applied for government peer-reviewed funding through the SBIR program.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses. Eleven U.S.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Presentation Format.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

(It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.) Much like the NIH SBIR program.) This by itself is a key differentiator for the Watch as a healthcare device. What’s Not Working? The Future.

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