Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

Many of them had heard the phrase “product/market fit” before, but now they were living it. Going into the first four weeks their business model hypotheses looked like this: Last week we told them team: 1) see if the market size was really large enough to support a business, and 2) to find that out they were going to have to ?talk

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

what distribution channel? Give us an estimate of market size). Their hypotheses when they first left the campus were: Value Proposition : Labor costs in mowing and weeding applications are significant, and autonomous implementation would solve the problem. Channel : Mowing and agricultural equipment dealers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. Being part of a big and growing market is a big asset when crowdfunding?—?and Edward’s University.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

I explained that the goal of the Innovation Corps was to bridge what the NSF calls the “ditch of death” – the gap between when NSF research funding runs out and when a team is credible enough (with enough customer and market knowledge) to raise private capital or license/partner with existing companies. Textbook is here.

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