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

Steve Blank

We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

While AI helps businesses make sense of their data, the Internet of Things (IoT) helps capture and deliver data from a plethora of interconnected devices. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. Invest in analytics.

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SOCIALKIT – Your Facebook Influence At A Glance

YoungUpstarts

SOCIALKIT ( www.socialkit.me ) is a social influence visualization tool that aggregates your Facebook data and presents it in a very fun yet informative, infographic manner. If Facebook was your business plan, SOCIALKIT would be its executive summary. Go check it out now.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.)

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10 Steps To Investing Successfully In New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.)

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