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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. When you leave the class, you’ll know how to think about your startup in the now standard “language” of the business model canvas.

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3 Years and 4 Jobs

Austin Startup

Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. Total Freedom… When I graduated college that boyfriend I was clinging onto in Georgia, broke it off with me. Yet, I was scared to do something on my own and didn’t believe I was good enough at anything to start a business by myself.

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U.C. Santa Cruz Commencement Speech – 2019

Steve Blank

Deciding between the applicants, their lobbyists, the environmental community, the staff, the coastal act and the law. Traffic from this huge project would have filled local roads not designed for this density and would impact the public’s access to the beach. But why serve your community, state or country? See through it.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Web Design/Tech Services.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

They saw a need for an easy-to-understand decision-making tool that could enable all major players involved in building design (architects, engineers, contractors and real estate developers) to see and compare options for cost and energy savings. Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.