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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. Elements of the business model canvas and/or discovery-based interviews of stakeholders have already been incorporated into 44 other classes at UMD.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

billion today as a public company (it went public in 2011). there needs to be a higher volume of failures (entrepreneurial experiments) to do that?—?but the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33 Here it is in Cotter’s own words, as I interviewed him at U.T. It is worth $3.4 or break?—?the

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

Students observed how executives worked, interviewed them, and wrote up how real managers solved problems. Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Entrepreneurial education was trapped in the 20th century.

Lean 435
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The Helsinki Spring

ReadWriteStart

I presented to thousands of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had nine interviews, chatted with eight VC's, sat on four panels, talked policy with two government ministers, two members of parliament, one head of a public pension fund and was in one TV documentary. The Helsinki Spring. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. At 11 a.m.,

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

I was interviewed by Philip Bouchard , Executive Director of TrustedPeer Entrepreneurship Advisory , about how entrepreneurship education has changed, mission-driven entrepreneurship, and what we’ve learned about corporate innovation. Interview highlights: How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.