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The Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Startup Blog: Arctic Startup. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Technology , Venture Capital.

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The Helsinki Spring

ReadWriteStart

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany."

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. Reply Ben C. ,

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

steve Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on August 7, 2009 at 1:26 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Reply gene , on August 3, 2009 at 5:23 pm Said: Thanks for picking up this series again, it is my favorite of all the ones you are writing.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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