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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team.

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

Gust

I’m no UI/UX designer or product manager, but I do work with entrepreneurs daily. Entrepreneurs building new products and services are passionate about them, wanting more than anything to beat the pants off the competition and dazzle potential customers with their creations such that they willingly part with their hard-earned money.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

The summit opened with a panel of Investors sharing their insights of what the funding environment for entrepreneurs, non-profits and small businesses will look like as the economy recovers. Besides sharing tips for teaching traditional entrepreneurs the discussion also included how we could help Main Street businesses.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Until then investors and entrepreneurs acted like startups were simply smaller versions of large companies.

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