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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Longer-term work/planning: what other experiments should we be constructing. Sales process: buyer/ user/ influencer etc.? Veritas , was the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine that average homeowners could afford. by modeling wind speed, energy costs, homeownership density and green energy incentives.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Off to a running start, they not only wrote down their initial business model hypotheses but they immediately got out of the building and began interviewing prospective customers to test their three most critical assumptions in any business: Value Proposition , Customer Segment and Channel. would buy an autonomous mower. Stay tuned.

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Strategies to Increase Your Construction Business Revenue

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In order to keep your business on track for where you want it to be your first year, next year, and ten years down the line, set realistically written targets for: Overhead, as recommended by Hedley, should be set at a minimum 20 percent annual return on your fixed costs, from estimating and marketing to accounting and office supplies.

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