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10 Reasons Why Now Is A Great Time To Be A Woman In Business

YoungUpstarts

The “edge” that this type of engagement gives them is a huge asset when channeled professionally. We’re wired for agility. We’ve learned to bend technology to fit our needs and increase our agility for handling more complex situations at increasingly higher and faster levels. Women know how to collaborate.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. Start your blog/wiki/journal.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile eLearning.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. Do some Customer Development instead. Dont scale.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience?

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