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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

For the teaching team one of the most important ways to track the teams progress was through the weekly blogs we made each team keep. Veritas , was the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine that average homeowners could afford. by modeling wind speed, energy costs, homeownership density and green energy incentives.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class. Their hypotheses when they first left the campus were: Value Proposition : Labor costs in mowing and weeding applications are significant, and autonomous implementation would solve the problem. Consider if their business worth pursuing?

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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

To ease the financial load, we’ve got a scholarship program that strips away luxuries and offers you a ticket that’s under-cost for us. Sourabh: I''m a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and part of the local community of entrepreneurs and startup folks in Lincoln and Nebraska.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

He had read my blog posts about the NSF Innovation Corps and was interested in how the first class went. Here are some of the final Lessons Learned presentations and team videos: Akara Solutions: Flexible, Low Cost Cooling Technology for LED Lighting. Principal Investigator: Stephen DiMagno University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Food Service: How much is that broccoli in the window?

Up and Running

Weeks of work goes into planning menus, finding your niche, costing out the food and hiring your crew. Many restaurants come and go for a variety of reasons, but one that comes to mind is the lack of understanding that raw food costs and labor can sink you rather quickly. It cost me money and money that I couldn’t afford to lose.

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How Many Variations Can You Have in an A/B/n Test?

ConversionXL

With a little luck, Android users in Kentucky referred by Google, iPhone users in Nebraska referred by Direct and Desktop users in NJ all preferred the redesign. In case you test a very big concept that might have a massive business impact but also high costs in terms of resources, it makes sense to be very sure about the test result.

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