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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Science and Industrial Policy Venture Capital'

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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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. (So Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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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.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. Entrepreneurship in Beijing. In the U.S.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAĂ‘OL. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events. I received an invitation to attend the event.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. Entrepreneurship in Beijing. In the U.S.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Event platforms. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source).