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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

That’s why I make my students spend a lot of time “touching the hot stove&# by talking to customers “outside the building” to test their hypotheses. However, as hard as I emphasize this point to aspiring entrepreneurs every year I usually get a call or email from a past student asking me to introduce them to my favorite VC’s.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And my advice to students who believe they want to do a startup but are unsure if they want to start one, is to join one that’s already raised their first round of funding. tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.]

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)links for 2009-09-01links for 2009-08-13links for 2009-07-11Categories and Tags [.] Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. Capital Requirements In my class students form teams and spend a semester building a detailed plan for a company. And the students nodded, OK, yes sir, and they wrote down, “a half a million bucks to start.”

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

Reply Jeff , on June 6, 2009 at 12:25 pm Said: Also should mention that Terman’s classic EE textbook “Radio Engineering&# was the first university level textbook for EE to systematically present much of what is standard fare for EE students today. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

He was the professor who helped his students Bill Hewlett and David Packard start a company in 1939. On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Reply Benjamin A.

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Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

He was visiting Stanford and mentioned how proud he was that several of his Thai students were here in the States for a business plan competition. For those of you who don’t know, business plan competitions are held by universities who get their students to enter and compete to see who has the best business idea. to compete.