Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. I like my odds.

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 2, 2013

I went to BYU (Brigham Young University) at Hawaii. Some said I was “stupid” or “crazy” for going after this dream to help people start businesses in developing countries, but I persisted. BYU-Hawaii worked closely with me to help create the business model and put mentors in place.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2017

I worked as a public television editor while in highschool, and in college worked two different jobs in finance while I started to develop Waiakea. When live in Hawaii and you don’t stay at a resort, you can’t help but ignore the unemployment and poverty in some areas that is directly relevant to education.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept. Electric, Gas, Water, Sanitary Svcs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That means the entire company is driven by directors – the artists – not by corporate executives in management with MBA’s or financial models or a development department. Directors, like founders, develop mental models for how they search for an unseen destination – they “get in the zone.” Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

She returned to her home state of Hawaii to become a mentor and advisor to tech accelerators and startups, and a parent of two before launching Hobnob. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 1, 2013

In the So Cal startup ecosystem, most of the companies launched are “safe”, evolutionary extensions of current business models and features, enhancing existing business ideas around the world. People like this are required for L.A. to ever have a chance of approaching Silicon Valley’s success machine.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

See if you can start developing at that kind of thing. Peter: You’re going to develop, develop, develop and if you don’t get kicked out of the the accelerator, you will get funding of some sort. Peter: Or all the business but not the development knowledge let’s say. Take your idea there.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. After running that Magic site, I moved on to running a proofreading business. Yaro: It depends how developed that site is.

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