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Customer Development for Startups — 100 episodes

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

2

Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

3

Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

4

Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation

5

Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance

6

The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins

7

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

8

Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

9

Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation's I-Corps Lite

10

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn't just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

11

How One Startup Figured Out What Could Really Help Deaf People

12

Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

13

Getting to "Yes" for Corporate Innovation

14

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

15

Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

16

Life Science Startups Rising in the UK

17

What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle

18

When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

19

It's About Women Running Startups

20

Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

21

I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine

22

The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

23

Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

24

Why Corporate Skunk Works Need to Die

25

Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

26

The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

27

Watching My Students Grow

28

Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

29

The Woodstock of K-12 Education

30

How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

31

Why Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same

32

How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle

33

Why Founders Should Know How to Code

34

Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

35

How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

36

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

37

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

38

Hostages Strapped to the Tank: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 2

39

Farming for Developers: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 1

40

Three Things I Learned on Commencement Day

41

Innovating Municipal Government Culture

42

Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

43

New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes

44

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

45

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

46

Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder's School: Part 2

47

Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

48

Why Companies are Not Startups

49

Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

50

How to Be Smarter than Your Investors – Continuous Customer Discovery

51

What I Learned by Flipping the MOOC

52

Sometimes It Pays to be a Jerk

53

Time For Founders School

54

Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

55

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

56

Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

57

Do Pivots Matter?

58

Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

59

Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

60

Lessons Learned in Therapeutics

61

Moneyball and the Investment Readiness Level-video

62

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

63

Lessons Learned in Digital Health

64

We've seen the Future of Translational Medicine and it's Disruptive

65

How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?

66

When Customers Make You Smarter

67

It's Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

68

When Product Features Disappear – Amazon, Apple and Tesla and the Troubled Future for 21st Century Consumers

69

Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Revenue Streams

70

Well They "Should" be Our Customers

71

Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels

72

A New Way to Look at Competitors

73

Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

74

Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Value Proposition and Customers

75

300 Teams in Two Years

76

This Will Save Us Years – Lean LaunchPad for Life Science

77

The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

78

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

79

Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

80

Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health

81

Reinventing Life Science Startups–Therapeutics and Diagnostics

82

How to get meetings with people too busy to see you

83

How Kevin O'Connor, and FindTheBest Got Lean

84

Building Great Founding Teams

85

An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It's about Smart Learning

86

Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

87

Don't Give Away Your Board Seats

88

Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus "Rent Seekers"

89

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

90

Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

91

Who's Doing the Learning?

92

Guns and Cyber Security

93

Fly High

94

University of Minnesota Commencement speech – May 10th 2013

95

When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review

96

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

97

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China's Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

98

The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

99

China's Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

100

China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)