Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Now, 4 years after I arrived at BerkeleyHaas, we don’t teach business plan writing in any of our entrepreneurship classes or in any of our dozens of programs and competitions. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley-wide.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2016
The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 30, 2014
It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity. It Takes a Village.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Phil Randazzo , is the founder of American Dream U , a national entrepreneurship and coaching program that helps transitioning soldiers find work or start their own business. He was a smart kid as well. … (and went) to University of Chicago as a junior in high school. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2010
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
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.
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