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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Steve Blank

After I retired, I began teaching Customer Development , a theory of how to reduce early stage risk in entrepreneurial ventures. Am I a Founder? Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA……………… 5. Raising Money Using Customer Development……… 47.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

Basil Ayish , MBA, Business Development. Clare Pak , Business Development. Allan May founder of Life Science Angels was the Medical Device cohort instructor. The Knox team was a great mix of hands-on device engineers and business development. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. IP Location Tools. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). This is lean development without any customer development. However, this will impact the value of your IP.

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