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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. MVR is the smallest amount of repeatability a startup can demonstrate, while still proving its business model and market/product fit. Minimum Viable Repeatability (MVR).

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Fixing the Missing Pieces of Infrastructure.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

I partnered with people all over the company and I basically built new products. The business model for automating hospitals was perfect on paper, but we missed very tiny little details, like hospitals don’t have computers for example! If you can’t hear the clip, click here. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

I partnered with people all over the company and I basically built new products. The business model for automating hospitals was perfect on paper, but we missed very tiny little details, like hospitals don’t have computers for example! If you can’t hear the clip, click here. And download any of the past shows here.).

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” Natasha Chornesky, who ran a publishing business, is the Director of Entrepreneurial Studies.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” Natasha Chornesky, who ran a publishing business, is the Director of Entrepreneurial Studies. Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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