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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. And that’s where the difficulties are.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. ( She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. The fact that we are rising to the occasion and getting it done, sometimes outside of normal channels, is very hopeful.

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

Steve Blank

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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