In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we talk with Steve Blank, senior innovation fellow at Columbia University, serial entrepreneur and the founder of the Lean Startup movement.

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We speak about what makes a successful startup, what large companies get wrong about innovation and how he has seen Lean Startup evolve and change over the past few years.

Topics covered in today's episode: * 00:01:15 - How Steve started 8 startups in 21 years, and what this taught him about how innovation works * 00:03:00 - How his Customer Development methodology morphed into the Lean Startup method (including insights from Alex Osterwalder and the Business Model development) * 00:07:30 - How the meaning of "Startup" has changed over the past few decades * 00:12:00 - The moment he realised "there are no facts inside your building", you need to go out and understand what customers think * 00:15:00 - How to test hypotheses. Lean startup is just the scientific method, using minimum viable products * 00:18:00 - What a "pivot" really is (and is not), a fundamental change to one or more components of the Business Model Canvas * 00:22:00 - His problem with innovation theatre * 00:25:30 - The need for an innovation doctrine in large companies, and startups going back to basics

Links mentioned in today's episode: * Steve's website: https://steveblank.com/

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