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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

Startup 335
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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. In 2003 U.C.

Lean 288
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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan.

Channel 120
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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. In 2003 U.C.

Lean 180
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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. About VC Cafe.