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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? This post is part one.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

We have a unique business model that allows us to be the most competitive lender in the space, by either working with lending partners or originating the loans ourselves. I am involved in six online business and looking for a seven-figure exit in the next five years. Thanks to Will Hatton, Hotel Jules ! #14-