Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Technology in search of a market.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. They have an opportunity ahead to build a billion dollar company.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I asked her to work with the Clarify Your Story framework, something we ask people to use in preparing for the roundtable, but clearly, Jeanne did not do her homework. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand.

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