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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

While I had managed to persuade two great VC’s to teach the class with me ( Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-ko ), what if I was wasting their time? It will be an improvement over mammography by detecting abnormal cells in an early stage, is radiation-free, and is 2-5 times less expensive than mammographs. But we could be wrong.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap Without Selling Your Soul

Both Sides of the Table

In part one I covered the need for early-stage enterprise software companies to build up professional services staff to ensure successful implementation projects. This group was given access to our R&D wiki so they could monitor what we were producing and what we were planning. That’s why I like deer. Easy to catch.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. The CTO should not manage developers. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group. The firm’s development team must be able to integrate primitive, early-stage technologies.

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Even In Uncertainty Startups Need A Workplace Policy

YoungUpstarts

There’s the sense that day-to-day activities and administrative duties can be managed by the founders. Create an internal wiki. There’s not many endeavours as exciting and energizing than being part of an early stage startup. As VP of Marketing, Bimal Parmar manages the global marketing strategy and execution at Celayix.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Yet the great companies manage to handle growth while keeping the resources dedicated to maintenance and scalability mostly fixed.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?