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

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. – not just web-based startups.

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Startup Resources

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Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

Links: » Joel on Software discussion » Business of Software discussion » Business of Software FAQ » Business of Software Wiki » Forum guidelines (Please read before posting!) Refine your elevator pitch. I know this works, in general, because sweat equity startup teams are quite common and often successful.