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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Berkeley Haas Business School is a leader in entrepreneurship education. It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan. We had multiple business plan competitions. The Business Plan is Dead.

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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. The country needs to figure out a long term privatization strategy for Venture investing.

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The Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development. Business Model versus Business Plan Customer Development' Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.)

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[Singapore][Competition] Applications For 14th Start-Up@Singapore Now Open

YoungUpstarts

Organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship Society and aimed at encouraging youth entrepreneurship, Start-Up@Singapore started in 1999 as a business plan but has now grown to be much bigger.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. Topics of conversation included how to identify fundable companies, trends in funding, business plans, and pitching to investors.

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