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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor attending Demo Day to assess project maturity or quantify risks.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. With a Taste Engine, you don’t search by what you’re looking for, you search by what you like. Search engines are wonderfully adept at helping people locate what they know they want.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Search Engine Optimization Tools.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. When Google came onto the market in ’99, ’00, there was already 15 other search engines. That is an old-school plan.