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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Filed under: Customer Development. Customer Development'

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. That works for almost all markets.

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

Steve Blank

understand the core customers and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. gather data essential to customer partnerships/collaboration/purchases before doing the science.

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The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

(Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. for startups created from university intellectual property to number one.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

However, there’s a growing belief that the “design preferences” of Chinese consumers are just bad design. TenCents WeChat , (designed for an international market) is the first incredibly popular app in China to dramatically raise the bar for what a good user interface and user experience looks and feels like.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. More on this in the next post.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

However, there’s a growing belief that the “design preferences” of Chinese consumers are just bad design. TenCents WeChat , (designed for an international market) is the first incredibly popular app in China to dramatically raise the bar for what a good user interface and user experience looks and feels like.

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