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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. In 1985 the University of Miami held the first national business plan competition. A decade later, I began to teach the foundations of Lean, first at UC Berkeley (Customer Development) and then at Stanford using cases and business plans.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? If you’d taken the time to do your market research, you would have learned there was no demand for passion fruit in Florida.