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Fly High

Steve Blank

He extended an invitation to me to come out to the Academy in Colorado Springs to address the cadets and meet the faculty. Then it was on to Colorado Springs and the Air Force Academy. Army, wasn’t an independent military branch until 1947, set up their academy in 1955 in Colorado Springs. Military Academies.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

He extended an invitation to me to come out to the Academy in Colorado Springs to address the cadets and meet the faculty. Then it was on to Colorado Springs and the Air Force Academy. Army, wasn’t an independent military branch until 1947, set up their academy in 1955 in Colorado Springs. Military Academies.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

And for those of you who are in Colorado but dont know what my speaking events are like, please take a look at some previous posts. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary.

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Transcript of The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

For those that are familiar with Studio Press, it was pretty much the industry standard for word press things for many, many years powered by the [Janis 00:01:44] framework, which is our design framework that makes word press more powerful and easier to use. We got to thousands of customers and millions in recurring revenue.

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Fall speaking tour starts tomorrow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Fall speaking tour starts tomorrow Tomorrow morning, I hop on a plane to Boulder, Colorado to kick off the largest speaking tour Ive ever attempted. After Colorado, in September Ill be in DC for Gov 2.0 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. However, I think if I had understood the basics of Customer Development I might have done 5-6 startups rather than 8 to get to retirement. Long vacations. It takes two.

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

But nothing Ive read so far really does justice to what I witnessed in Colorado and Nevada. In the small field office that I volunteered at in Colorado, here was the rhythm of our daily existence. Democrats didnt have a great voter database to start with, because Colorado had only recently become part of their electoral strategy.