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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 2 of 2

Steve Blank

As often happens, this team came into class convinced that their market research proved that their business was providing credit to underbanked customers. The ParkPoint Capital customer discovery narrative blog is here. The DentalOptics customer discovery narrative blog is here. Stanford e245 2012 class photo.

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

To share what we learned, we blogged each of those class sessions , (all the slides can be found here.) We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. The EngineKites customer discovery narrative blog is here. Team Nudge/Dynamo.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company

Austin Startup

business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. Here are the ingredients: Business model : This is actually the most important ingredient of the five. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on Dec.

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Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Web 3.0 & Social Dancing, Romania Emerging

ReadWriteStart

We also explored business models that not only can span advertising, subscription, and e-commerce, but also hybrid virtual-physical concepts that could even draw upon a Starbucks of Salsa, Tango or Swing! For more, you can also follow the discussion on my blog titled: Web 3.0 We hope to see many more in 2012.

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Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security

BeyondVC

Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012. Dev first business model with budget from security? —?we We also introduced Guy to fellow founders like Tom Preston-Werner from Github ( see blog post on Snyk ) to help refine the story.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. An interesting consequence of the rigid censoring and control of mainstream media is that blogging – reading and writing – is much higher than U.S. business models. like WeChat.).

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