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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

That is until 1947 when Myles Mace taught the first entrepreneurship course “Management of New Enterprises” at Harvard Business School. In 1953 Peter Drucker offered an Entrepreneurship and Innovation class at New York University, and in 1954 Stanford’s business school offered “Small Business Management” its first small business course.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Most important slide: lessons learned Working product Key questions: what does the product do? whats the launch plan?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong? Expo SF (May.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Silicon Valley, New York). The process they use to guide their search is customer development. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative. Victor Hugo.

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Kiwi lean startup + Australia next

Startup Lessons Learned

Their supposed lack of ambition was belied by the many cool demos and startups I got to meet. If youre in Europe, for example, keep an eye out for the innovative YikeBike , a new kind of personal transport device. Their supposed lack of ambition was belied by the many cool demos and startups I got to meet. Expo SF (May.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?