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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. 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.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. to get hard-earned information.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

iPhone & iPad #distribution #ormaybemarketing # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 2: Partner with someone with an established distribution channel, ie. Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – Class 2: The Business Model Canvas

Steve Blank

what distribution channel? Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class . They were going to start with the $81M Chlorine market where they already had a partner. Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses. Consider if their business worth pursuing?