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Fly High

Steve Blank

The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification. The Air Force, originally part of the U.S.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification. The Air Force, originally part of the U.S.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Pilot Production Of Large Area Uniform Single-Crystal Graphene Films. Commercialization of an Engineered Pyrolysis Blanket for the Conversion of Forestry Residues to Soil Amendments and Energy Products. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.