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When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster.

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Prior to her 21 years as an educator, Doris Korda spent 15 years as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur in the cowboy days of the high tech industry. That sounds like a simple thing, but back then, in the tech world, it was mostly engineers talking tech, bits and bytes. The students get out of the building to talk with customers.

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Steve Blank

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Prior to her 21 years as an educator, Doris Korda spent 15 years as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur in the cowboy days of the high tech industry. That sounds like a simple thing, but back then, in the tech world, it was mostly engineers talking tech, bits and bytes. The students get out of the building to talk with customers.

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