Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

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. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. What’s Different. Silicon Valley Transplants.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. I spoke with wife and husband team Kristen and Sergio Castillo, whose cat cafe, Purringtons, is set to open in Portland at the end of January. How do you open a business unlike any other?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community. And all this must be tied together with ongoing communications with staff, business partners, vendors, and other key people affecting your business. Finding a brewery location.

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