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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

See how many of the following “new” Internet concepts you recognize, and can explain in terms of value to your business. If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. You can use it for your business.

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

Steve Blank

We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

If you are attempting to apply lean startup ideas in your own business - you are not alone. The Lean Startup Wiki (hosted by long-time lean startup pbWorks) contains a number of resources, including links to case studies , meetups, tools , and people who have volunteered to help. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Many entrepreneurship courses focus on teaching students “how to write a business plan.” are what make it a business, 2) business plans are fine for large companies where there is an existing market, existing product and existing customers. . This class is not about how to write a business plan.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. further along in the information you’ll need to build your business plan.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. You can read the article to find out why. 3comments: Charles Crawford said.

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. I'm hoping we'll get this hosted on a wiki soon.) It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship.