In his NCIIA talk, Blank defined a pivot as changing one component of your business model canvas.

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Key to this has been an NSF initiative called I-Corp done in concert with the NCIIA. Blank and Jerry Engel of the Berkley Haas School has put together a terrific curriculum and set of online lectures for validating the business and marketing aspect of a tech startup.

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