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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind. ——-. I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. This methodology improved on waterfall by building software iteratively and involving the customer. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business.

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Cloud Is The New Black

YoungUpstarts

by Guilherme Sesterhein, CSM and software development/Google area leader at ilegra. Most of their business models wouldn’t be possible without it. Guilherme Sesterhein is a CSM and software development/Google area leader at ilegra. You could think that this means that cloud is basic. Gartner did.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

The idea of this course started on a trip to Stanford University during March 2010, where we realized that many of the great innovations in Silicon Valley are born from Computer Science students, so we said “We should give our computer science students an opportunity to develop a company”.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. It's a fun and funny business to be in. Few developers will find themselves at an extreme or precisely in the middle, and we're no exception.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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