Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. universities teaching the Lean LaunchPad curriculum organized as I-Corps “nodes” across the U.S. The nodes are now offering their own regional versions of the Lean LaunchPad class under I-Corps.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Most importantly we now have a better idea of how to build innovation programs that will deliver products and services, not just demos. the best presenter and flashiest demo usually win. the best presenter and flashiest demo usually win. And we can explain why innovation in large organizations looks nothing like startups.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. At the end of the class there will be a Demo Day when investors get to see the best this country’s researchers have to offer. Until today. billion U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. One of the surprises for me was seeing the value of having the Department of Defense and other government agency sponsors working together with the university educators. (One

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Our sponsors did remind us, that at times getting a solution deployed meant that someone did have to see a demo!).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. At Stanford our Lean Launchpad class ran an experiment that showed when “the boardroom is bits” can make a radical difference in the outcome of an early stage startup. Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits. It’s time for a change.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Navy has demos of alternatives, but there is no force structure built on a different set of principles that would complicate China’s plans and create doubt in our adversaries of whether they could prevail in a conflict. If the primary asset of the U.S. Like the pre-WW2 aircraft carriers.) In fact, there isn’t.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2020

government innovate. Steve Blank is the author of books The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner’s Manual as well as the author of a Harvard Business Review cover story, Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything , that explained how companies could use the Lean Startup to counter disruption and implement innovation at speed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. One of the surprises for me was seeing the value of having the Department of Defense and other government agency sponsors working together with the university educators. (One

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Minimal viable products are being demo’d to sponsors and sponsors are reacting to what the teams are learning. Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. Understanding how to measure mission achievement/success for each beneficiary is the difference between a demo and a deployed solution. See all the H4D posts here.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford's School of Engineering).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Newell ran the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2024

We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. This Class Launched a Revolution in Teaching Entreprenurship Several government-funded programs have adopted this class at scale. Below are the Lessons Learned presentations from the spring 2024 Lean LaunchPad. This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2025

You've got moderators for each of the communities that have their, their own rules and they govern how that community is going to, to engage. Jim Squires (15:48.396) and then they want to lean in and they want to learn more about John Jantsch (15:52.363) So imagine the CEO sitting around saying, okay, my agency says I need to be on Reddit.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Government agencies. You can even be a heavily commerce-based organization, like Edelman, but how do you measure success on a website where you can’t buy anything, or even request a demo or collect leads? A government agency could exist to provide accurate information to individuals trying to find voting locations or their local DMV.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. The default was spending two years trying to perfect an application and doing a big launch and demo day, or I mean, TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

I began formulating the key ideas around what became the Lean Startup – that startups and existing companies were distinctly different – companies execute business models while startups search for them. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” But by week 5, (this week) the teams have either embraced the Lean process or we’re not going to get through to them. The teams are learning what it takes to turn a demo into a deployable solution that gets to the field.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

Meet Nava, A Startup That Wants To Fix The Government’s Crappy Design [link] crowdspring.co/1MbGeIk Lean Business Tips: Marketing Channels on the Cheap | crowdSPRING Blog – [link] crowdspring.co/1L8yVm3 Convert a Chrome Timeline data to a GIF (video) demo [link] crowdspring.co/1J2nKa9 Launching a New Product?

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” But by week 5, (this week) the teams have either embraced the Lean process or we’re not going to get through to them. The teams are learning what it takes to turn a demo into a deployable solution that gets to the field.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Lean Startup is the way most innovators build startups and innovate inside of existing companies. What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? With the goal of not just building a great demo but getting the product adopted and deployed. Here are our collective thoughts.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Build something then demo it to people. Other sources of capital. They care about real product.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Most nonprofit and mission-driven organizations run lean operations, with employees wearing several hats and having multiple responsibilities. Contact us today for a demo to see how BoardEffect can help make your board and its committees more effective, efficient and ultimately successful.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Those are great employees to have in a government or a larger organization where there’s lot of bureaucracy. We say, you’ve got to be able to give a demo to one of our other internal customer experience reps within two weeks. You’re trying to run your business in a really lean way. How do you handle that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. The demo day, for example, is completely virtual, was completely virtual. Alpha Lee : Yeah, first ever virtual demo day. I am Eric Ries. Eric Ries : What was that like?

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2025

Policy priorities for new administrations In the UK, Keir Starmers Labour government is already making significant changes to funding and strategy. Reach out here to schedule a BoardEffect demo. For 2025, focus has shifted to growth, communication, IT security and new ways to leverage data. In the United States, the Trump 2.0

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