Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. Yet they share values and hopefully some synergy around topics of mutual interest (same customers, or technologies).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

However, it’s difficult to measure the impact of a new tool or technology if you don’t have a clear goal. Even startups with a lean marketing strategy invest in at least two or three channels. After all, if 74% of users report they prefer chatbots because they provide quick answers to common questions, it makes sense to implement them.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

So you're trying to do things that you're leaning into those moments that really matter, and you're causing those to stand out. Now all of a sudden we're leaning into something that's become unforgettable. So we're trying to look at things like that, but also leaning into what did they really come for? So that's it.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2012

by Mike Richardson , author of “ Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto “ Technology is constantly speeding up the pace of business: Decisions once delayed for weeks are now made in seconds thanks to internet communication. Computer analytics puts real-time market information at our fingertips. Get fast consensus.

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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. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

We combined the Lean Startup methodology – used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science – with the rapid problem sourcing and solution methodology Pete developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq when he ran the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads. In 2012, Rep.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011.

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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. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. Put the mission first, think long term, and everything else will fall into place. EB : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Shortly thereafter, Andrew Beinbrink, CEO of the interesting San Diego start-up SportsTV, introduced me to Seal Ellis who introduced me to Steven Blank’s book The Four Steps to Epiphany, which sounded an awful lot like what I had blogged about.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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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. First and foremost, it is experiential and hands-on. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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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. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

In the DOD/IC innovation is often more technology, more planes, more aircraft carriers, more satellites, etc. It is this group, challenging the dogma of the existing programs, who will come up with the disruptive/asymmetric offset technologies and strategies. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer.

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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. First and foremost, it is experiential and hands-on. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

We have strong theses in key technology areas. So we did the opposite and leaned into it adopting the “Why Buy Me” strategy of seeking people out who either understood the power of LA or were persuadable. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco. VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We are hands on.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy. Technology Company looks for opportunities to apply its technology. link] about 1 hour ago from Quora RT @marksbertrand : like lean?

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Steve also teaches my Lean LaunchPad course at Berkeley and Stanford, and is the cofounder of Kinetrope, a product design shop working on bringing to market devices in the area of entertainment and IoT. 3D technology in theaters and at home. If you can’t hear the clip, click here . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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