In the 20th century, corporate skunk works were used to develop disruptive innovation separate from the rest of the company. They Read More
Born global or die local
Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country Read More
The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better
Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it. —— The Lean Startup process builds new Read More
Watching My Students Grow
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”Galileo Galilei One of Read More
Why translational medicine will never be the same
There have been 2 or 3 courses in my entire education that have changedthe way I think. This Read More
The Woodstock of K-12 Education
Describing something as the “Woodstock of…” has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering. It happened recently when a Read More
How to think like an entrepreneur: The Inventure Cycle
The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with Read More
Why founders should know how to code
“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”Book of Five Rings A startup Read More
The path of our lives
“Some men see things as they are and say, why;I dream things that never were and say, Read More
Why lean may save your life
Recently, the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class (I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Read More
Three things I learned on Commencement Day
In the last five years I’ve been at Commencement Day at universities around the world – a few Read More
The importance of talking to customers as a startup
Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as Read More
Corporate acquisitions of startups
For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Lately the pressure of continuous disruption has forced Read More
‘Embrace change and lead the way’
President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank you for the kind Read More
Henry Chesbrough is known as the father of Open Innovation and wrote the book that defined the practice. Henry is Read More