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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? We’re offering a 2½ day seminar for educators who want to offer either class. Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? We’re offering a 2½ day seminar for educators who want to offer either class. Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Startup Lessons Learned

My Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar courtesy of Stanford Ecorner (audio podcast only for now, video coming soon): if youd like to follow along with slides, they are here: 2009 09 29 The Lean Startup At Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar View more presentations from Eric Ries. Expo SF (May.

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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

This Wednesday, Ive been invited to give a lecture as part of Stanford Universitys Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar. This Wednesday, Ive been invited to give a lecture as part of Stanford Universitys Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Expo in NYC. Expo SF (May.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

I then head back to the USA for a free and open-to-the-public lecture at Stanford University for their Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar on September 30. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Expo SF (May.