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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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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. Class Flow Week 1 What is a simple idea?

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

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. For example, our Intel Technology To Market Accelerator took 22 teams from 11 countries across 15 time zones, from northern Russia to southern Chile and from Saudi Arabia to the U.S.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Although some startups were not well thought through most were up to Silicon Valley standards in terms of quality of ideas, scalability, product and execution. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. Research universities also became an integral part of the military ecosystem as the federal government pumped billions into supporting science. Lessons Learned. Like the U.S.

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Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? Maybe we haven’t seen the results yet, but there are thousands of startup opportunities to offer new products and services, to replace those in crisis. As an alternative, if you are an entrepreneur looking for the next big thing, where should you look?

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. Research universities also became an integral part of the military ecosystem as the federal government pumped billions into supporting science. Lessons Learned. Like the U.S.

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