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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product? Xu Cui (Ph.D,

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. The great thing is, in 2007, we visited 75+ resorts for a demo tour, and have many leads I can follow up on. A few nuggets. 1) Hire A’s.