What Is Validation? In the startup world, everyone talks about “hypothesis-driven testing,” “validation,” and “experiments.” Over the last 10 years, I have run over 1,000 startup and corporate innovation teams through programs based on the Business Model Canvas. It’s great for prompting entrepreneurs to focus on innovating the whole business model
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The Agile Business Model Innovation Manifesto

Creating new business models is hard. Creating an organization that is continuously creating new business models is extremely hard. The closest I’ve seen is organizations running an Agile Product Development (APD) process. APD focuses on creating a culture and processes that support small, semi-autonomous, high performance teams. APD has done
Continue readingBlowing up the Business Plan at UC Berkeley

A post I wrote with Steve Blank for his blog: When I came to U.C. Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. Our core MBA class used the
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