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

Steve Blank

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Codeacademy.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. They don’t have to worry. November 29, 2012.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. They all struggle with how do you lean against the American healthcare system?