blank — Pyrite Knowledge Base

Intellectual biography of Steve Blank — serial entrepreneur, educator, and creator of the Customer Development methodology. Covers the development of Customer Development from entrepreneurial experien

Discovery-Driven Planning (McGrath & MacMillan) source Lead Users — Eric von Hippel source The Lean Startup (Eric Ries) source Lean LaunchPad Course writing The Secret History of Silicon Valley writing The Startup Owner's Manual writing Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything writing The Four Steps to the Epiphany writing Customer Development concept Product Development Death Spiral concept A Startup Is Not a Small Version of a Large Company concept Pivot concept Get Out of the Building concept Agile Development and Customer Development concept Mission Model Canvas concept Market Types concept Business Model Canvas (as used by Blank) concept Lean Startup concept Government Innovation Programs era Educator and Author era Military Service era Silicon Valley Startups era Bob Dorf actor Jerry Engel actor Eric Ries actor Pete Newell actor William Perry actor Alexander Osterwalder actor Steve Blank actor Joe Felter actor Tom Byers actor Raj Shah actor ESL (Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory) cascade_org Hacking for Defense cascade_org E.piphany cascade_org NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) cascade_org Further Research Opportunities article Lean Manufacturing Lineage article Critical Assessment — Praise and Critique of Customer Development article Boyd-Blank Comparison — Convergent Discovery article Four Steps to the Epiphany Published cascade_event Lean LaunchPad Course Launched cascade_event NSF I-Corps Program Launched cascade_event E.piphany IPO cascade_event