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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

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization.

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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. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Cray’s first customers were the U.S. At Ardent our hypothesis was that if we could build a desktop supercomputer powerful enough to run and display these numerical simulations there were enough customers to make this a big business. I concluded that my first job was to understand what Cray’s markets, customers and applications.

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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. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Venture Capital. Local Early-Stage Risk Capital.

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