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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. While I had managed to persuade two great VC’s to teach the class with me ( Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-ko ), what if I was wasting their time?

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Yet the great companies manage to handle growth while keeping the resources dedicated to maintenance and scalability mostly fixed.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Great post!

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs.