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

Steve Blank

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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

Steve Blank

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. We use Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad to train and accelerate teams U.C. Chicago) through the Lean LaunchPad process. Customer Development works outside Silicon Valley. Berkeley-wide.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

Clay stressed that crowdfunding should not replace Customer Discovery: … Customer Development and Customer Discovery need to be moved earlier – before you launch. If they can unplug me from the project in Boston, and plug me into the project in Chicago with no training and no time lost, that’s great. .

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Time For Founders School

Steve Blank

And I’m in good company – also in the series is Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations. 2:44: What is a Pivot?

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Twitter Link Roundup #220 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Chicago is the funniest city in the U.S. (we 7 Reasons You Can’t Be Friends With Your Employees – crowdspring.co/1jrrWok. 1kT56c9.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I am often reminded of the story of the building of Chicago and the rise of modern skyscrapers of glass & steel with non-load-bearing walls as talked about in The Fountainhead but also chronicled in history books and in the many architectural tours I’ve taken in Chicago. Failure is critical. What brings you to LA?

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego. It Takes a Village.

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