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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types , Marketing. By then it was too late.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. It seems that we underestimate the founders intuition, which created the company in the first place. Order Here. Now In Print!