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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. The irony is that once you’ve gone through the lean cycle, you have all the information that goes in a business plan: customers, sales strategy, product features, and financial metrics. Seeing Is Believing.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

And, as one entrepreneur put it to me, "we understood that a big part of our responsibility in the program was to make sure the mentors have a good experience, by taking their advice to heart and giving them a feeling of being part of our evolution as a company." And do your customer development. Articulate, inspirational.

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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Theres probably one in a city near you.

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Six streaming locations

Startup Lessons Learned

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). More locations are being added as we can confirm them.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. First of all, it’s not fair to say that how much capital you’ve raised is a vanity metric, because it is real, right? Jason: All right.

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