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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

At the end of the quarter, each of the teams gave a final “Lessons Learned” presentation. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

At the end of the quarter each of the eight teams give a final “Lessons Learned” presentation. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. What a year.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap? Is it a tiny crack, or a widening chasm? And how can you tell? If you’re not hearing those questions from your developers, you’ve got the gap.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from? Be sure to check out the entire presentation. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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How we built our investor presentation and raised $2 million

The Next Web

Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. One of the most important ones is an investor presentation or a “deck.”. For investors that don’t know you yet, your presentation will likely be one of the first impressions they get of your company so it’s an important piece to do right.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Do you have the basics already defined and merely need them fleshed out? Or is your project a clean slate?