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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Turn off your audio. Then turn your audio back on. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. And we will build a knowledge base of DOD/IC acquisition primers, customer development best practices, org charts, etc.

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If You Want To Start a Business Start Here

Up and Running

We have an extensive list of good business podcasts here, so if this is your learning style, go enjoy your audio blast. It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. Here are a few of my favorites: Entrepreneurship and Business Course. Maybe you’re the same way.

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The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve Always Had

ConversionXL

note: If you’re a startup, you’ll want to use customer development questions for your page to resonate with future traffic). Do This: Use customer development techniques found in this post to build a profile of your ideal buyer personas. What are you using our product for? Do you consider any alternatives?

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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