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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. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Would we signs of success early?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) Well, half of it.

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Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2

Steve Blank

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators with another source of well produced and curated resources. 1:28: Using the Business Model Canvas. 1:49: Use Customer Development to Test Your Hypotheses. 4:24: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers.

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Time For Founders School

Steve Blank

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators another source of well produced and curated resources. 0:43: Business Plans versus Business Models. 6:07: Engineering: Waterfall Development in a Large Company vs. Module 3, The Lean Method. 1:28: Using the Business Model Canvas.

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If You Want To Start a Business Start Here

Up and Running

” As the managing editor of Bplans, I’ve had the good fortune to learn about business via the content we share; through interviews with LivePlan customers and other business owners; and thanks to brilliant, informal coaching from people like Tim Berry, Noah Parsons, and the rest of the executive leadership team at Palo Alto Software.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. What’s the worst case?

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The History of Lean Planning

Up and Running

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go”.

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