Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 30, 2012

TLDR: Two things: 1) Uncle Sam (and I) want you to be an entrepreneur inside the US Federal Government as a White House Innovation Fellow. 2) All video from the SXSW Lean Startup track is now available for free. Second, it was the day after the first SXSW Lean Startup track, and I was exhausted. You know the ones I mean.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The cross-disciplinary class brings students from widely divergent backgrounds together in teams of three to five, each aiming to tackle a gnarly international problem vexing Foggy Bottom in just 10 weeks by applying Lean LaunchPad methodology. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Joe Felter , Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities for the United States in its enduring strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, Russia and other rivals. Government. Expose students to experiential learning on policy questions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

National Science Foundation adopted this class, now called the Innovation Corps, as the basis of commercializing science in the Unites States. This unorthodox idea has become a movement …called The Lean Startup – and has led to entirely new ways to start companies, commercialize science, and think about innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

The Lean Startup track was successful beyond my wildest imaginations (we'll have video up soon ). My personal highlight was watching newly-appointed United States CTO Todd Park receive a standing ovation from a crowd that is decidedly skeptical about government. I had an incredible couple of days at SXSW. Details here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Department of State is working on all of them. State Department and other civilian agencies. Support U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. There's never been a better time to innovate" United States CTO Aneesh Chopra kicked off the event by saying: "there's never been a better time to innovate." I don't control any government contracts.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We benefit because it helps the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO) standardize on equipment and our allies’ industrial capacity, capability and workforce can complement those of the United States. government should attend the Hacking for Allies webinar February 23 rd at 8 am Pacific, 11 am Eastern. defense ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Department of State is working on all of them. State Department and other civilian agencies. Support U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Today, the United States is facing several seemingly intractable national security problems simultaneously. Simultaneously, each of us was actively engaged in helping different branches of the government understand, react, and deliver solutions in a rapidly changing and challenging environment. Gordian What? and globally.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Women can lean in, education can push STEM, states may enact wage gap and family leave legislation. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. He is the author of 23 books on gender and corporate governance. Cast a wide net.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A potential business opportunity for Sedibeng Breweries is a government-subsidized export operation, ideally to target markets in neighboring countries that are very similar to their target markets in Botswana so that Sedibeng’s strong marketing campaign can remain consistent. Expansion. Example SWOT analysis: Botanical Bounty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. She served as the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

I am particularly passionate about promoting government collaboration with startups through mentoring initiatives because I can see the value it provides to both sides. From my experience in Abu Dhabi, various government entities have and continue to provide mentorship opportunities to the tech sector across multiple areas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

This cycle of solutions delivered and value received has been a staple for us since our inception and we expect to lean on this approach for the foreseeable future. . We worked hard to ensure that our members were able to handle the unfolding COVID-19 situation in the United States and around the world.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. If you asked 100 people to describe a United States Marine , they would probably use words such as “Warrior,” “Fierce,” “Patriot,” “Honorable,” and “Tough.” Understand Your Customer and Teach Them to Solve Real Problems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. If you asked 100 people to describe a United States Marine , they would probably use words such as “Warrior,” “Fierce,” “Patriot,” “Honorable,” and “Tough.” Understand Your Customer and Teach Them to Solve Real Problems.

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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. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. The class syllabus uses exactly the same pedagogy as the Lean LaunchPad and I-Corps classes.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Luckily, I’ve done the research for you and picked out the top small business-friendly cities in the United States. As local governments work to transform their regulatory environments into ones that promote and nurture the establishment and growth of small businesses, it’s becoming easier to measure and rank their efforts.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The cultural tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a financial structure which balanced risk, return and obscene returns, allowed this system flourish in technology clusters in United States, particularly in Silicon Valley. And Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad class could do just that. Yet this system isn’t perfect.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. Starting this Thursday, scientists and engineers across the United States will once again set the rules.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Vision Synching in a Lean Startup - Startup Marketing Blog , November 12, 2010 In the age of the lean startup , we often forget about the importance of vision. Ralph Waldo Emerson. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

through the Lean Launchpad class. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school. He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. Rally is also donating three seats to their Enterprise Lean Startup training course to this effort.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. And some of it could be in development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Eric Ries : Oh, really?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Last week the team did mass interviews of city officials across the United States to understand the project approval process inside a city. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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