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Green Chile Burgers: A Recipe For Success

YoungUpstarts

I have heard of a good burger place with green Chile burgers but not I’m sure where it is”, Denise said. We’re not sure what a green Chile burger is and all agree to go find one. Burger Boy indeed has a green Chile burger. If you think about it, this was a pretty sophisticated customer service approach.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

Teaching in Chile. I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. This week the class has been adopted in the Computer Science department of the Catholic University of Chile. Valaparaiso houses.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. More metrics need to be identified such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation in order to show that a market opportunity exists. After you are accepted.

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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

They will have a chance to use their skills to land a job with one of our customers, based on 4 continents. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México. Our students are working in the best companies in Peru, Mexico, Chile, and EEUU.

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

Dig deeper to uncover hidden needs, latch onto popular hobbies or passions, make our customers heroes, and sell what they’ll buy. This should include what you will sell, who your customers will be, how much you will charge, how you’ll market your business, what determines success, and how objections will be managed. 4 Compelling offer.

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

Steve Blank

Traction and evidence from customers were what investors were looking for – even in “slow” sectors like healthcare and energy. 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.