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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. Entrepreneurs who’ve overcome the proof-of-concept phase of their startups want to take their businesses to the next level.

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What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle

Steve Blank

In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Patrick took a bunch of notes, and said, “You know when I figuring out how to search for a business model, I read the Startup Owners Manual and Business Model Generation , but where are the books for this phase?

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.” Everyone has ideas.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #9: How, and why, to ask for help

Austin Startup

We’ve also built a large Advisory Board, from DJ Patil to Kelly Wright. They not only invented business models, they also invented a new form of government, which was incredibly radical for that time. At data.world, we’ve done our best to do the same. Our founding fathers were very ambitious entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class.

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Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.