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Fly High

Steve Blank

Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

This user/customer-centered approach is a huge step in the right direction in the life science/health care commercialization. However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context. Others Are Doing this As Well.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. jesskah UltraLean: Building Products Without a Dev Team Sandeep Sood. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze. Co-founder, Polyvore.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

I concluded that my first job was to understand what Cray’s markets, customers and applications. When I learned that Cray users would be giving papers at the Society of Petroleum Engineering conference in Denver the next day, I got on a plane to listen and learn.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Bend’s economic development agency ( EDCO ) has worked very hard to establish direct flights to major West Coast cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Denver. There are about 25,000 economic development agencies in regional markets across the U.S., Local Early-Stage Risk Capital.

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