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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers.

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How Modern Businesses Achieve Success with AI Chatbots

YoungUpstarts

Leaders who may have previously been forced to expend significant resources on securing new talent to perform these steps can rest assured that a bot can manage several touchpoints in the sales pipeline on its own — with lower overhead costs, to boot. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California.

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Stop Wasting Time In Meetings!

YoungUpstarts

by Mike Richardson , author of “ Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto “ Technology is constantly speeding up the pace of business: Decisions once delayed for weeks are now made in seconds thanks to internet communication. Here are some tips for developing agile meetings with traction: Map your meeting.

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

Steve Blank

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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

Steve Blank

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. . Expo SF (May.

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How to Automate Apps with Workflows & Integrations

ConversionXL

monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. For example, here’s an email Airbnb sent to a user showing strong intent to book a place to stay in San Diego: This behavior would have first been recorded by an automation platform or via events in Google Analytics.