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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. Bruce Cleveland is a Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of the book “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. You can learn more about the Traction Gap Framework here.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. I went to the conference thinking that I was well grounded in the basics of the Lean Startup approach and that attendance would hone the edges of that understanding.

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The Woodstock of K-12 Education

Steve Blank

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class is the canonical model of such a class, with versions now taught in hundreds of colleges and universities.). On Fire With A Vision.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. So I launched The Big Bend Theory with Bruce Cleveland.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ▼ April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

— The Hawken School entrepreneurship program is modeled on the Lean LaunchPad curriculum, and has been adopted by high schools across the country. Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Congressmen Daniel Lipinski and Seth Moulton discuss how the government’s innovation efforts are now Lean. Want to be a guest on the show?

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What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School 2.0

Up and Running

Fellow Chicagoan / Clevelander Mark H. He invented the Sports Marketing industry over a handshake with Arnold Palmer… just a few miles from where I was born in Cleveland, OH a billion dollar empire was formed. They’re using the 4 Hour Work Week , Lean Startup , Rework & Linchpin as their textbooks. The list goes on.

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