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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. Even if they did, what if the assumption – that we had developed a better approach to teaching entrepreneurship – was simply mistaken?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. As a result, potential customers are being turned away; they can only afford to engage with the customers that are best qualified.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Look at the stories of the current generation of aging superstars in any industry.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license. Not only are there free compilers and development systems, but there are also a number of efforts to develop development systems and languages specifically aimed at teaching kids to program. Expo SF (May.