customer development

Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who Read More

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. The book has been shepherded Read More

  Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square Read More

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched –Startup Weekend Next. A partnership of Startup Weekend, Startup America, TechStars and Udacity, Startup Weekend Next brings four Read More

I often get asked about finding cofounders and I usually give the standard list of characteristics of what Read More

  I often get asked, “how do I get a meeting with a VC?”  Here is my slightly Read More

This is a guest post by my Startup Owner’s Manual co-author Bob Dorf. While statistics are weak on startup success rates, Read More

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught atStanford, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech and for the National Science Read More

A founder’s skill is knowing how to recognize new patterns and to pivot on a dime. At times Read More

If there’s only one passionate party in a relationship it’s unrequited love. Here’s how I learned it the Read More

Our goal teaching for the National Science Foundation was to make a dent in the universe. Could we actually teach Read More

TE·NA·CIOUS/TƏˈNĀSHƏS/ Adjective: Not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object that one holds, a Read More

This is a guest post from Jerry Engel, the Faculty Director of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (and the Founding Read More

We’ve taught our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation in 8 Read More