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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. You can bootstrap it. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. You can bootstrap it. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

Prezi’s founding team is a classic startup mix of hacker, hustler and designer. Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. .

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

Nigel : … We’ve done a pretty decent job … bootstrapping with limited resources — trying to figure out different ways to get work done and move the needle without actually spending any money. In building their companies, the Caldon brothers have found that when things get tough, there’s always a way to make it work.

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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

It only emerges after an intense business model design and search activity based on the customer development process. All of their internal systems are designed to keep doing what they’ve always done best. The hard part is designing all of the systems to enable the success of the startups. And why wouldn’t it be?

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Murali Krishna Devarakonda , on November 5, 2009 at 7:44 pm Said: Isn’t it amazing that entrepreneurs need to be told to go after their customers? Blog at WordPress.com.

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

Steve Blank

Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0, If your market is missing, just add it as we go through this discussion. Yeah, I said. It is actually a tree that organizes all sectors, industries, and sub-industries.

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