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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. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Within each brand there were several models at different price points. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year. Think of the iPhone and its yearly new models.). What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla And Elon Musk?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Only after we have at least two products scaling successfully in at least two emerging market regions, will we have proven the commercial model for medical device design with and for emerging markets. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. Tell us about a memorable celebrity encounter.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

As I got older, I saw the demand, researched and decided there was a niche market no one had tapped into yet. I followed this gut instinct and launched HourglassAngel.com during the summer of my junior year at the University of Michigan: a site created with just a $4,500 investment. Thanks to Andrew Glantz, GiftAMeal.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. In “normal” market conditions, 20% is the norm.

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Higher Ed Start-Up Teams With Top Universities to Offer ‘Free’ Courses

Campus Entrepreneurship

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way? Currently my tofu ads are in heavy rotation in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Michigan. Is it someone else?

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