The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Researchers Michael Leatherbee and Riitta Katila recently published a paper in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal that shows how and why lean startup’s emphasis on “customer discovery” (directly testing business hypotheses with potential customers during product development) does help teams converge on business ideas.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

JULY 2, 2023

So I went on to get an executive business degree in entrepreneurship to start a technology-centric business. I am also always willing to collaborate with brands and private equity researchers in the enterprise software space, either for due diligence or developing go-to-market or product development strategies.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. Based on this shift, our rules of customer engagement have also changed significantly over the last decade.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, CCS Product Development, AT&T. "As As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Most companies react to change as it occurs. You must anticipate and plan for future changes. Instead of being a crisis manager and reacting to change, anticipate changes so you can drive growth from the inside out. Unfortunately, most companies come up with something new and make it their main product.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This is just the nature of behavior change. The good news is that we now understand the science of behavior change a lot better thanks to the work of people like Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, BJ Fogg, Dan Ariely, Charles Duhigg, Nir Eyal, James Clear and more. We encounter behavior change challenges all the time. Less is more.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Christina has been cross-teaching design to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship to designers at institutions such as California College for the Arts, General Assembly, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, and Stanford. Let’s say you’re building a brand new product. Right people: Talk to people like your users. I am not your user.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. And all of these hypotheses (and minimal viable products) change over time as you learn more.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. auto market.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. By then, they would have cornered the entire market!” Competition helps validate a market and most first movers really have a disadvantage, not an advantage. blurts out Steve.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

When I talk to clients about disruption and how the future is already fundamentally changing the paradigms of business I talk to them about the ants but I get them to imagine the people are all Entrepreneurs with a common purpose to create the next big business or industry. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before.

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

The billion dollar startup was once the stuff of myth but now they’re everywhere, backed by a bull market and founded on new, disruptive digital technologies and business models which make their speed of operation, rate of innovation and reach that much greater. Their idea solves an existing, mass market problem.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. Packaging Engineer, Kraft Foods "Idea Champions' ability to teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 3, 2017

A change in the world that seems so clear you’re sure someone else will do it. We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world. Our culture of entrepreneurship is how we create so much progress. So we just kept moving forward, day by day.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This is the third in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. —– Corporate Leadership’s Innovation Outpost Decision Process.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

However, while many organisations know that the people who could help them create the next blockbuster or break the next market sit outside their walls they also knew that unless they could find and hire them then that IQ would remain tantalisingly out of reach. The growth of the internet changed all that. Six degrees is now four.

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Econic

MAY 22, 2019

It made sense to sell a new product to the market who was already buying their baby food. Because most people who try to create new products follow the same process that Gerber did. Identify a market. Come up with a product that market might purchase. In hindsight, this flop seems inevitable. Conclusion.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 17, 2015

Over the past two weeks I’ve talked to a number of senior C level executives from some of the UK’s largest retail banks to understand more about their views of the world and their perception of the market and while outwardly little looks like its changing at the Big Five banks their executives are not sitting comfortably.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 18, 2016

Today, the situation has changed significantly. Mentoring/Coaching over a cup of coffee : I shall host the coffee corner sessions every week to mentor/coach young entrepreneurs who want to pick my brain on the topics of new product development, business model, marketing and customer acquisition.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This is the third in a series on the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. .

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This is the third in a series on the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. .

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In the U.S.

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In the U.S.

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In the U.S.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This is the third in a series on the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers. The change in corporate strategy forces a change in the structure of how a company is organized. In the U.S. We’re now in the middle of the fourth.

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