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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

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.

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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

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, "You live once, you might as well swing for the fences." These kids were operating at the 30th percentile on average.