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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

In 1985 the University of Miami held the first national business plan competition. Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. experiential. The Syllabus.

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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? Say you start the passion fruit farm you’ve been dreaming of for years in your home state in Florida. Free farming sample business plans.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

But at the same time, if schools get closed or weird, you can lean much more heavily on them. If school has to close, if it's shift based, whatever, just lean as heavy as you need to lean on Khan Academy. You can keep learning through summers. You can keep learning through breaks. You can keep learning from home.