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2026 19

  1. Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
  2. The Lean Educator Conference
  3. Subterranean Warfare – An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner
  4. Lean LaunchPad – The Next Generation
  5. The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t
  6. AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP
  7. The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same
  8. Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
  9. Incorruptible
  10. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
  11. Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
  12. AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
  13. Nowhere Is Safe
  14. Solving Yesterday’s Problems Will Kill You
  15. Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
  16. Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End
  17. You Only Think They Work For You
  18. Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
  19. Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

2025 14

  1. The Department of War Directory
  2. The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed
  3. It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy
  4. How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory – Now with 500 more names
  5. No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
  6. When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis
  7. How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory
  8. Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
  9. Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business
  10. Lean Launchpad at Stanford – 2025
  11. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations
  12. Teaching National Security Policy with AI
  13. How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower
  14. How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower

2024 18

  1. Quantum Computing – An Update
  2. How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It
  3. What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This.
  4. How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices
  5. Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups
  6. Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It
  7. Lean LaunchPad @Stanford 2024 – 8 Teams In, 8 Companies Out
  8. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations
  9. You’re Invited: Hacking for Defense and Lean LaunchPad Final Presentations
  10. Gordon Bell R.I.P.
  11. The Venture Mindset – Worth A Read
  12. Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid
  13. The Secret History of Polaroid CEO Edwin Land
  14. Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals
  15. Is a $100 Million Enough?
  16. Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market
  17. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up
  18. The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

2023 13

  1. The Secret History of Minnesota: Engineering Research Associates
  2. Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets
  3. Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2
  4. Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1
  5. Profound Beliefs
  6. Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush
  7. Lean Meets Wicked Problems
  8. Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress
  9. Playing With Fire – ChatGPT
  10. Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
  11. Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
  12. Be Where Your Business Is
  13. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up

2022 16

  1. Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit
  2. The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption
  3. The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation
  4. A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
  5. Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry
  6. National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up
  7. Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO
  8. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained
  9. Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China
  10. Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
  11. Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation
  12. The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained
  13. The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained
  14. Save the Date! the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit
  15. What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many
  16. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Wrap Up

2021 35

  1. Year End Review – What You Might Have Missed
  2. I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind
  3. The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford
  4. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber
  5. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space
  6. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy
  7. When There Seems to Be No Way Out – Customer Discovery for Your Head
  8. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning
  9. How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery
  10. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors
  11. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3 – Russia
  12. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 2 – China
  13. Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 1
  14. Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition
  15. Lead and Disrupt
  16. Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
  17. The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught
  18. Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology
  19. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations
  20. You Don’t Need Permission
  21. Your Product is Not Their Problem
  22. Back to the Classroom – The Educators Summit
  23. These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation
  24. Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups
  25. A Path to the Minimum Viable Product
  26. E Pluribus Unum – A Rallying Cry for National Service
  27. Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do?
  28. Hacking for Allies
  29. When National Security Falls Between the Cracks
  30. Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance
  31. Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones – P.S. You’re Fired
  32. Reminder
  33. Lessons for the New Administration – Technology, Innovation, and Modern War
  34. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Wrap Up
  35. A Quick Course on Lean

2020 40

  1. What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results
  2. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 18 – General James Mattis
  3. Build Back Better – The Educators Summit
  4. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall
  5. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord
  6. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher
  7. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 13 – ONR– Rear Admiral Lorin Selby
  8. The Educators Summit: Adapting to the COVID Economy
  9. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond
  10. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal
  11. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy
  12. Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 9 – Autonomy – Maynard Holliday
  13. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani
  14. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan
  15. Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper
  16. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose
  17. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby
  18. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel
  19. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2 – Max Boot
  20. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter
  21. Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Introduction
  22. Hacking 4 Recovery – Time to Take A Shot
  23. Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic
  24. What Can A Startup Do in 5 days? Watch this
  25. Educators Summit: Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic
  26. Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets and Customers
  27. The Coming Chip Wars
  28. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations
  29. The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct
  30. Seven Steps to Small Business Recovery
  31. Hacking 4 Recovery
  32. What’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human
  33. In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life
  34. Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus
  35. How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act
  36. Action Today for CFO’s
  37. The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
  38. You’re Not Important to Me but I Want To Meet With You
  39. How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event
  40. Clayton Christensen

2019 16

  1. Getting Schooled – Lessons from an Adjunct
  2. We Needed a Bigger Room – The Lean Educators Summit
  3. Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
  4. How to Convince Investors You’re the Future not the Past
  5. Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation
  6. Who Ever Thought? The Lean Educators Summit
  7. Mission Model Canvas – the Videos
  8. AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back Into Agile
  9. U.C. Santa Cruz Commencement Speech – 2019
  10. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019
  11. The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation
  12. How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset
  13. Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad
  14. The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different
  15. Don’t Get Left Behind As Your Company Grows
  16. The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model

2018 23

  1. How do you apply Lean to Digital Health and Life Sciences?
  2. How to Survive in a World of Disruption – Innovation in Large Organizations
  3. How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows
  4. Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety
  5. Why Founders Need a Moral Compass
  6. What Your Startup Needs to Know About Regulated Markets
  7. The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare
  8. The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law
  9. Is the Lean Startup Dead?
  10. Brown University Talk
  11. This 1 Piece of Advice Could Make Or Break Your Career
  12. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe
  13. The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
  14. Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant
  15. Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
  16. The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs
  17. Leadership is More Than a Memo
  18. The State of Entrepreneurship
  19. CoinOut Gets Coin In
  20. Hacking for Defense at Columbia University
  21. Innovation at Speed – when you have 2 million employees
  22. Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America
  23. Innovators podcast @ Stanford

2017 25

  1. Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors
  2. Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders
  3. The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community
  4. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean
  5. Removing the Roadblocks to Government/Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice
  6. How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right
  7. Working Outside the Tech Bubble
  8. You adapt, or you adopt, or you die
  9. Why Corporate Innovation is Harder Now
  10. National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington
  11. Why good people leave large tech companies
  12. Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”
  13. We Have A Moral Obligation
  14. Tesla Lost $700 Million Last Year, So Why Is Tesla’s Valuation $60 Billion?
  15. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations
  16. Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017
  17. Fireside Chat with Sebastian Thrun
  18. Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life
  19. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications
  20. Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together
  21. Why Some Startups Win
  22. The No Excuses Culture
  23. Don’t let process distract you from finding the strategy
  24. Hacking for Defense Goes National
  25. Innovation – something both parties can agree on

2016 69

  1. The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development, …
  2. Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department
  3. So Here’s What I’ve Been Thinking…
  4. What the Harvard Business Review and The People’s Daily think about leadership succession
  5. Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice
  6. Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup
  7. How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture
  8. Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques
  9. The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy
  10. Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
  11. The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company
  12. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher
  13. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel
  14. There are 145 Entrepreneurship Courses at Stanford
  15. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh
  16. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks
  17. 7 Steps to Hacking for Defense
  18. The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)
  19. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 41: Chris Schroeder and Andy Cunningham
  20. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Sunny Shah and Curt Haselton
  21. Working Hard is not the same as working smart
  22. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean
  23. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead
  24. Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages
  25. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune
  26. Hacking for Defense in 2 minutes
  27. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield
  28. Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad
  29. Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class
  30. Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)
  31. Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 1 of 2)
  32. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 37: Michael Ingle and Graeme Gordon
  33. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai
  34. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 35: Jessica Mah and Peggy Burke
  35. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken
  36. Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it
  37. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere: Show No. 33: David Comisford and Omar Zenhom
  38. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava
  39. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
  40. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth Moulton
  41. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9
  42. NYU Commencement Speech 2016
  43. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7
  44. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6
  45. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda
  46. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5
  47. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn
  48. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4
  49. Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3
  50. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi
  51. Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2
  52. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 27: Brandon Bruce and Jack Sundell
  53. Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 1
  54. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley
  55. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank
  56. What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking
  57. Learning Through Reflection
  58. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick
  59. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton
  60. The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations
  61. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21: Grant Warner
  62. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz
  63. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell
  64. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke
  65. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 18: Sarah Calhoun and Steve Sims
  66. Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place
  67. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert
  68. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen
  69. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 15: DJ Jayalath and Mark Hatch

2015 49

  1. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 14: Matthew Wallenstein and Jason Young
  2. How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works
  3. Blank’s Rule – To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy
  4. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 13: Liz Powers and Rocio Perez-Ochoa
  5. How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost
  6. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 12: Andrew Breen and David Binetti
  7. Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is
  8. Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D
  9. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 11: Pat Sullivan and Sebastian Jackson
  10. Lean Startup In Japanese Companies
  11. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge
  12. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam
  13. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 8: Phil Randazzo and Derek Andersen
  14. Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation
  15. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 7: Betsy Corcoran and Miriam Altman
  16. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 6: Al Milukas, and Zahra Aljabri and James Faghmous
  17. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 5: Daniella Yacobovsky and Jane Moritz
  18. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus
  19. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli
  20. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley
  21. Heroes and Rituals in Startups, Companies and Government
  22. Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere Show No. 1: Richard Witten and Kathryn Minshew
  23. Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance
  24. Innovation @ 50x in Companies and Government Agencies
  25. Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla
  26. How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111
  27. Episode 1 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Alexander Osterwalder and Oren Jacob
  28. The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins
  29. Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani
  30. Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino
  31. Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work
  32. Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse
  33. Episode 3 on SiriusXM Channel 111: Kathryn Gould, Mar Hershenson, Sophie Lebrecht
  34. Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite
  35. Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product
  36. How One Startup Figured Out What Could Really Help Deaf People
  37. Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley
  38. Getting to “Yes” for Corporate Innovation
  39. Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation
  40. I’m on the Air – On Sirius XM Channel 111
  41. Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School
  42. Market Type and Revenue. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why
  43. Life Science Startups Rising in the UK
  44. What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle
  45. The Best Job in Stamford Connecticut
  46. When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check
  47. It’s About Women Running Startups
  48. The Art of the Minimal Viable Product. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why
  49. There Are 4 Types of Startups

2014 57

  1. Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!
  2. I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine
  3. The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland
  4. K&S Ranch
  5. Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad
  6. Users, Payers and Multi-Sided Markets
  7. Why Corporate Skunk Works Need to Die
  8. How Do I Know If I Have The Right Customers? 2 Minutes to Find Out
  9. Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook
  10. The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design
  11. How We Used to Give Startups Very Bad Advice. 2 Minutes to See Why
  12. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With Customers. 2 Minutes to See Why
  13. Watching My Students Grow
  14. Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner
  15. The Woodstock of K-12 Education
  16. How To Find the Right Co-Founders?
  17. Why Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same
  18. How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle
  19. Why Founders Should Know How to Code
  20. What Do Customers Get From You? 2 Minutes to Find Out
  21. Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould
  22. Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development
  23. Not All Startups Are the Same. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why
  24. Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom
  25. What Job Needs to be Done? 2 Minutes to Find Out Why
  26. How Big Is It Really? 2 Minutes to Find Out Why
  27. The Path of Our Lives
  28. Validation: Be Sure Your Startup Vision Isn’t a Hallucination. 2 Minutes to See Why
  29. How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level
  30. Customer Discovery: The Search for Product/Market Fit. 2 Minutes to See Why
  31. I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum
  32. Keep Calm and Test the Hypothesis. 2 Minutes to See Why
  33. Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH
  34. Hostages Strapped to the Tank: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 2
  35. Farming for Developers: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 1
  36. Pivot – Firing the Plan Not the People. 2 Minutes to See Why.
  37. At times more is less and less is more. 2 minutes to see why
  38. Three Things I Learned on Commencement Day
  39. Innovating Municipal Government Culture
  40. Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?
  41. New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes
  42. ESADE Business School Commencement Speech
  43. Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups
  44. Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2
  45. Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups
  46. Why Companies are Not Startups
  47. Is This Startup Ready For Investment?
  48. How to Be Smarter than Your Investors – Continuous Customer Discovery
  49. What I Learned by Flipping the MOOC
  50. Sometimes It Pays to be a Jerk
  51. Time For Founders School
  52. Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend
  53. Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend
  54. Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3
  55. Do Pivots Matter?
  56. Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment
  57. Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

2013 53

  1. Lessons Learned in Therapeutics
  2. Moneyball and the Investment Readiness Level-video
  3. Lessons Learned in Medical Devices
  4. Lessons Learned in Digital Health
  5. We’ve seen the Future of Translational Medicine and it’s Disruptive
  6. How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?
  7. When Customers Make You Smarter
  8. It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level
  9. When Product Features Disappear – Amazon, Apple and Tesla and the Troubled Future for 21st Century Consumers
  10. Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Revenue Streams
  11. Well They “Should” be Our Customers
  12. Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels
  13. A New Way to Look at Competitors
  14. Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation
  15. Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Value Proposition and Customers
  16. 300 Teams in Two Years
  17. This Will Save Us Years – Lean LaunchPad for Life Science
  18. The Air Force Academy Gets Lean
  19. Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day
  20. Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship
  21. Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health
  22. Reinventing Life Science Startups–Therapeutics and Diagnostics
  23. How to get meetings with people too busy to see you
  24. How Kevin O’Connor, and FindTheBest Got Lean
  25. Building Great Founding Teams
  26. An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
  27. Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats
  28. In Defense of Unreasonableness – Saving the California Coast
  29. Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”
  30. The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class
  31. Fund Raising is a Means Not an End
  32. Who’s Doing the Learning?
  33. University of Minnesota Commencement speech – May 10th 2013
  34. Guns and Cyber Security
  35. Free Reprints of “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything”
  36. Fly High
  37. When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review
  38. China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)
  39. Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)
  40. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)
  41. China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)
  42. China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)
  43. The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School
  44. The Lean LaunchPad Goes to High School
  45. Failure and Redemption
  46. Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate
  47. Crazy enough to change the world
  48. Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It
  49. Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)
  50. Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)
  51. Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!
  52. Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates
  53. The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy: Part 6a The Secret History of Silicon Valley

2012 42

  1. Завзятість – Tenacity: How I Spent A Year One Night in Kiev
  2. Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum
  3. Customer Development in a Diagram
  4. The Future of Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  5. Open Source Entrepreneurship
  6. Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes
  7. Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson
  8. Entrepreneurs as Dissidents
  9. 10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next
  10. 10,000 Startups
  11. How We Fight – Cofounders in Love and War
  12. How to Get a VC Meeting – the flowchart
  13. Startup Communities – Building Regional Clusters
  14. Why Too Many Startups (er) Suck
  15. The Lean LaunchPad Online
  16. Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die
  17. Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots
  18. The Lean LaunchPad Class Online
  19. When Microsoft Threatened to Sue Us Over the Letter “E”
  20. At times not losing is as important as winning
  21. Massacre at IBM
  22. Lying on your resume
  23. Unrequited Love
  24. Tenacious
  25. On Vacation
  26. Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps
  27. Entrepreneurship for the 99%
  28. Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
  29. 9 Deadliest Start-up Sins
  30. Why Innovation Dies
  31. Five Days to Change the World – The Columbia Lean LaunchPad Class
  32. How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup
  33. Blinded by the Light – The Epiphany
  34. Nail the Customer Development Manifesto to the Wall
  35. The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best
  36. Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 2 of 2
  37. Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2
  38. Search versus Execute
  39. Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers
  40. Who Dares Wins – The 2nd Annual International Business Model Competition
  41. Two Giant Steps Forward For Entrepreneurs
  42. Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

2011 65

  1. American Entrepreneur Radio Interview
  2. The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – Class 2: The Business Model Canvas
  3. The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps
  4. The Startup Team
  5. You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem
  6. Scientists Unleashed
  7. Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s
  8. How the iPhone Got Tail Fins – Part 2 of 2
  9. How the iPhone Got Tail Fins – Part 1 of 2
  10. Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring
  11. The Helsinki Spring
  12. How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition
  13. The Pay-It-Forward Culture
  14. Why Governments Don’t Get Startups
  15. It’s Not How Big It Is – It’s How Well It Performs: The Startup Genome Compass
  16. Hiring – Easy as Pie
  17. The Four Steps to the Epiphany is Now in Russian
  18. There’s Always a Plan B
  19. Going Out With His Boots On
  20. Bonfire of the Vanities
  21. Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers
  22. How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong
  23. The $10 million Photo and other VC Stories
  24. On Vacation
  25. The Internet Might Kill Us All
  26. Are You the Fool at The Table?
  27. The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again
  28. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship
  29. Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures
  30. Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2
  31. Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project
  32. Greatest Hits – The Gigaom Interview
  33. The Four Steps to the Epiphany is Now in French
  34. Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011
  35. The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford – The Final Presentations
  36. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model
  37. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 7: Revenue Model
  38. The Apprentice – Entrepreneur Version
  39. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses
  40. Mentors, Coaches and Teachers
  41. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses
  42. Risk and Culture in Silicon Valley
  43. Entrepreneurs Are Artists
  44. Flowery Words – True Ventures Founders Camp
  45. One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan
  46. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses
  47. Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job
  48. Napkin Entrepreneurs
  49. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 3: Value Proposition Hypotheses
  50. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship
  51. New Rules for the New Internet Bubble
  52. The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses
  53. A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1
  54. Honor and Recognition in Event of Success
  55. A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley
  56. College and Business Will Never Be the Same
  57. Startup America – Dead On Arrival
  58. VC’s Are Not Your Friends
  59. Startups – So Easy a 12 Year Old Can Do It
  60. The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition
  61. Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code
  62. The Bad Board Member
  63. The Cover-Up Culture
  64. Now Hear This
  65. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

2010 81

  1. Happy Holidays
  2. Hubris, Passion and Customer Development
  3. Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”
  4. The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science
  5. The VC Pitch – Confusing the Destination with the Journey
  6. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars
  7. Crisis Management by Firing Executives – There’s A Better Way
  8. Creating Startup Success – Customer Development + Business Model Design
  9. Get Out of The Building – And Win $50,000
  10. Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference
  11. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.
  12. Checklists for Chaos, The Path to Success
  13. Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack
  14. Who’s An Entrepreneur-Talk with the Kauffman Foundation
  15. Requiem For A Roommate
  16. Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
  17. Strategy is Not a To Do List
  18. Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs
  19. Less is More, More or Less
  20. Panic at the Pivot – Aligning Incentives By Burning the Boats
  21. The Peter Pan Syndrome–The Startup to Company Transition
  22. You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities
  23. Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup
  24. Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers
  25. Boys Rules, Girls Lose – Women at Work
  26. The Non-Dummies Guide to Customer Discovery
  27. Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company
  28. How Customer Development Failed Us
  29. Teach Like You’re the Student
  30. The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors
  31. Keeping Score
  32. You Can’t Take It With You
  33. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation
  34. The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear
  35. Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)
  36. Nuke’em ‘Till They Glow – Quitting My First Job
  37. Nature versus Nurture in Entrepreneurs
  38. How I Spent My Summer Vacation
  39. On The Road
  40. Is Your VC Founder Friendly?
  41. You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur
  42. When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It
  43. The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise
  44. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups
  45. Ejection Seats
  46. You’re Just the Founder
  47. No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions
  48. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do
  49. Entrepreneurial Finishing School – Should I Get an MBA?
  50. You Actually Did This?
  51. Teaching Customer Development and the Lean Startup – Topological Homeomorphism
  52. Woodstock for Entrepreneurs – the Startup Lessons Learned Conference
  53. Turning on your Reality Distortion Field
  54. Blind Men and an Elephant- Nature Versus Nurture and Entrepreneurship
  55. Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups
  56. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model
  57. No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models
  58. Teaching Entrepreneurship – The “Survey” Class
  59. Airman Roachclip, Ashley P.
  60. Teaching Entrepreneurship – Logistics
  61. On Blog Vacation
  62. Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building
  63. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 15: Agena – The Secret Space Truck, Ferret’s and Stanford
  64. Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set
  65. Death By Competitive Analysis
  66. Customer Development for Web Startups
  67. No Accounting For Startups
  68. Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
  69. Death By Revenue Plan
  70. It Must Be A Marketing Problem
  71. Emulating Empathy
  72. Memo From the Monastery
  73. Incentives and Legends
  74. Balloon Wars: Part 16 of the Secret History of Silicon Valley
  75. What’s A Startup? First Principles.
  76. I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.
  77. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 14: Weapons System 117L and Corona
  78. A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company
  79. Victory From Adversity
  80. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 13: Lockheed-the Startup with Nuclear Missiles
  81. Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup

2009 103

  1. Out Hiking
  2. The Seven Days of Christmas
  3. The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
  4. Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough
  5. In Victory: Magnanimity
  6. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy
  7. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?!
  8. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?
  9. Customer Development is Not a Focus Group
  10. Thanksgiving Day
  11. Customer Development: Past, Present, Future
  12. Closure
  13. Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development
  14. “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch
  15. Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action
  16. Raising Money Using Customer Development
  17. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups
  18. The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital” Part 2
  19. The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital” Part 1
  20. Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less
  21. Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers
  22. Ardent War Story 4: You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job
  23. Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn
  24. Fun For Hours
  25. Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building
  26. Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal
  27. Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1
  28. Unintended Lessons
  29. Let’s Fire Our Customers
  30. Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5)
  31. Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?
  32. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4)
  33. The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3)
  34. The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2)
  35. The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1)
  36. The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram
  37. The Secret History of Silicon Valley” Part IVb – The End of Innocence
  38. Coffee With Startups
  39. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the Rubicon
  40. I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You
  41. Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning
  42. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in Microwave Valley
  43. Thirty-Six Years Later
  44. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of Entrepreneurship
  45. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You Never Heard Of
  46. He’s Only in Field Service
  47. Ask and It Shall be Given
  48. The Road Not Taken
  49. Burnout
  50. Rocket Science 5: Who Needs Domain Experts
  51. Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product
  52. Rocket Science 3: Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley
  53. Customer Development Fireside Chat
  54. Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid
  55. A Wilderness of Mirrors
  56. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA
  57. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores
  58. Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP
  59. Epitaph for an Entrepreneur
  60. Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
  61. Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.
  62. Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together
  63. Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making
  64. Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups
  65. Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby
  66. Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk
  67. Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same
  68. Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2
  69. Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1
  70. Founders and dysfunctional families
  71. The Curse of a New Building
  72. Gravity Will be Turned Off
  73. SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot
  74. Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions
  75. Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know
  76. The Sharp End of the Stick
  77. Customer Development Talk Startup2Startup
  78. SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards
  79. Preparing for Chaos – the Life of a Startup
  80. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIb: Every World War II Movie was Wrong
  81. Supermac War Story 8: Cats and Dogs – Admitting a Mistake
  82. Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus
  83. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: The Second 100 years
  84. SuperMac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat – Product Line Extensions
  85. Change We Can Believe In – Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open Source the Chevy Volt
  86. Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location
  87. “Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups
  88. SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values
  89. The “Good” Student
  90. Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important Company You Never Heard Of
  91. Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential?
  92. SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution — the Potrero Benchmarks
  93. The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System
  94. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at Work
  95. If I Told You I’d Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley”
  96. Watch This Space
  97. SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone’s Job
  98. SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building
  99. SuperMac War Story 1: Joining SuperMac
  100. There’s a Pattern Here
  101. Out of the Ashes – Something Isn’t Quite Right
  102. The Product Development Model
  103. Retirement and Redemption