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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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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. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. The Adventure Begins.

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Building A Reputation As A Trustworthy Software Developer

The Startup Magazine

Still, it is possible to build your reputation as a trustworthy software developer, despite the busy nature of the markets. Curate Developer Profiles. A positive introduction to you and your software developers can make an impact. Here are some steps you can take to help you with this goal.

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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. 1:49: Use Customer Development to Test Your Hypotheses. 4:24: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers. Module 2, Getting Out of the Building: Customer Development.

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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. 1:49: Use Customer Development to Test Your Hypotheses. 4:24: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers. 0:41: Don’t outsource Customer Discovery.

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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. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. Free: Startup Tools. Specific links are: A list of startup tools is here. agile engineering. Find it here.

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

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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