Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.
Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Team: IntelliSense.
Austin Startup
MAY 11, 2017
We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. We are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. New Age VC About This is just a start.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale. TechCrunch article. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2019
My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. And a very small percentage are focused on innovation.
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