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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

So will failing to understand your customers. Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. A startup is not a part-time activity. We were early to the market.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). The good news is that the NSF found that the I-Corps program works spectacularly well.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard.