customer development

Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country Read More

Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it. —— The Lean Startup process builds new Read More

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”Galileo Galilei One of Read More

There have been 2 or 3 courses in my entire education that have changedthe way I think.  This Read More

The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with Read More

“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”Book of Five Rings A startup Read More

Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as Read More

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

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we Read More

With a ~$2 billion endowment the Kauffman Foundation is the largest non-profit focused on entrepreneurship in the world. Giving away Read More

In the last few years we’ve recognized that a startup is not a smaller version of a large Read More

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. However, accelerator Read More

Teams that build continuous customer discovery into their DNA will become smarter than their investors, and build more Read More