Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

In 2013, after taking the 2½-day “ Lean LaunchPad for Educators ” seminar, a few brave educators from Hawken School , a K-12 school in Cleveland, Ohio, decided to change the status quo. On Fire With A Vision. They returned to Hawken on fire with a vision of building a completely different sort of entrepreneurship course in their school.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

So I launched The Big Bend Theory with Bruce Cleveland. We help Oregon-based startups build and scale their businesses by providing highly relevant mentoring and leveraging our deep network in Silicon Valley and beyond. Bend needs to attract more entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Doris explained how it works and why it’s effective: I find real businesses with real and urgent startup problems around Cleveland who are willing to let a bunch of high school kids work on those problems. The students get out of the building to talk with customers. They learn creative problem solving.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Doris explained how it works and why it’s effective: I find real businesses with real and urgent startup problems around Cleveland who are willing to let a bunch of high school kids work on those problems. The students get out of the building to talk with customers. They learn creative problem solving.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” ” Hawken School has now given us an answer. Experiential education is threaded in the school’s DNA.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” ” Hawken School has now given us an answer. Experiential education is threaded in the school’s DNA.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” ” Hawken School has now given us an answer. Experiential education is threaded in the school’s DNA.

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