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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate
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My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting, and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is a co-author of The GE Work-Out and The … Continue reading
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Five Days to Change the World – The Columbia Lean LaunchPad Class
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We’ve taught our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation in 8 week, 10 week and 12 week versions. We decided to find out what was the Minimum Viable Product for our Lean LaunchPad class…read full post. … Continue reading
Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2
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Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the first five…read full post. Download MP3
Search versus Execute
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One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution…read full post. Download MP3
Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers
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The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It’s understandingwho to listen to and why. Five Cups of Coffee I got a call from Satish, one of … Continue reading
Who Dares Wins – The 2nd Annual International Business Model Competition
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Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2nd Annual International Business Model Competition, hosted by Professor Nathan Furr, and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. The idea of a Business Model competition first emerged when I … Continue reading
Scientists Unleashed
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Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw We’re in the middle of our National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class – taking the most promising research projects … Continue reading
Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring
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I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. (Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with … Continue reading
The Helsinki Spring
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I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship…read full post. Download MP3
How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition
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As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for theNational Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. One of the problems they run into is building a web site…read full post. Download MP3
