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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. There’s an Overhead Cost to Being an Entrepreneur in a big, established corporation.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

By “vertical production” I meant that many online video production companies will have a strong vertical focus that will help them win the battle to sign up talent, build stronger & more loyal audiences and align with stronger advertiser relationships because they serve more endemic audiences.

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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. I told him that I would make sure I’d get my costs covered by clients. Every now and again somebody figures out how to communicate a unique message to an audience and become known for something in a field. My grandfather.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Cove.tool is a game-changing, machine learning technology that helps users discover smarter ways to make their buildings energy efficient while saving on construction costs. To make sure every new construction and renovation is optimized for energy and cost.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Colombia, South America. Pay me half what you think I want to earn and I’ll pay all my own moving costs.” Someone – if they happen to be in the audience – someone sent me this big box of soft drinks, or something. I grew up in Northern California. His father came from Romania. I have no idea.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Perhaps because the cost of a public failure is so high in Chile. Why will people from South America stream to Chile, besides its magnificent geography? In addition, in Chile the cost of personal failure is high. See below.).

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Mastering The Art Of Listening

Duct Tape Marketing

4:10] What are you finding that not listening in the way is costing people? [5:34] So what I was starting to ask you is what are you finding that not listening in the way that you're talking about at least is costing people Oscar Trimboli (04:21): The cost of not listening and the way people described it in the research was lost.