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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. Present and explain your marketing campaign.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

and Britian can affect German war-fighting capability is by mounting a Strategic Bombing campaign , from England. The Americans and British split up the air campaign: the British bombed at night, the Americans during the day.

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Supermac War Story 8: Cats and Dogs - Admitting a Mistake

Steve Blank

If it was a very big mistake, I blamed the VP of Sales. “This marketing campaign didn’t work? Reply Customer Development Gut Checks « Market By Numbers - Brant Cooper , on April 28, 2009 at 11:38 am Said: [.] The only variable was how big the screw-up was – that made a difference in whom I blamed.

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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

PS1- I run a small software startup in Brazil and just found out about Customer Development and your blog (I’ve been reading and listening to everything I can get my hands on online, like Venturehacks and Ries’ blog). You can get away with effective behavior in a large company.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Company Plugs Gap In Google's Enterprise Solution

ReadWriteStart

Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development. The long tail apps can easily be ported to or developed on Google App Engine in a third of the time and cost using OrangeScape as an application platform. Enter OrangeScape.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Final Thought. and Flipboard newspapers. Lessons at the end.).

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. September 7, 2009 4:28 PM akibalogh said.