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14 Entrepreneurs Share Their Views on Writing a Business Plan or Not

Hearpreneur

2- Yes, to build a customer-centric business model Photo Credit: David Brewer We based and built it around the idea that our industry could, and should do better and that was the model that we were going to implement that idea as our core objective. Thanks to Jordan Adair, Shirt Max ! #14-

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Tesla Tesla invented a successful business model for bringing compelling electric cars to the market. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. Photo Credit: Jordan W. 18- Amazon. Peagler, Esq.

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Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

Steve Blank

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. The team ran their first I-Corps for Learning class earlier this year.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? How many are there? Can it scale?”

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Ask “what are the trends that are impacting our business?

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And that’s just to get started. I like my odds.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.