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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? See here for an extended discussion of remote customer discovery.).

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business

Hearpreneur

7- Enriching customer experiences Photo Credit: Andy LaPointe The motivation to grow our nationally award-winning gourmet food company, Traverse Bay Farms, is our ability to be a part of the life experience of countless people. We understand our customer buy our products for the special events and experiences in their lives. #14-

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

My team dedicated their time to creating a sense of community. Our membership network of thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs across hundreds of local chapters nationwide feel like they belong to an entire community now. 20, 2021 we opened our first flagship store in Waikiki, Hawaii. 8- Prioritized health.

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Thanksgiving Day

Steve Blank

Since our kids were little our Thanksgiving tradition was to head to Hawaii with friends and eat Thanksgiving dinner under the palm trees to the sound of the waves next to the warm ocean. ( So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc.

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We Love Our Customers

crowdSPRING Blog

We love our customers. In two years, we’ve answered over 40,000 customer service tickets, and tens of thousands of other customer requests via email, private message, and phone. We’ve obsessed about providing the absolute best customer service to our designers, writers, and buyers. We love our customers.

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Hacking 4 RecoveryĀ ā€“ Time to Take A Shot

Steve Blank

And so, Hacking for Recovery began, starting first at Stanford and next offered by University of Hawaii for the State of Hawaii. The teams were able to do customer discovery via video conferencing (getting out of the building without physically getting out of the building) averaging 44 interviews in 5 days. graduate 14%.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators ā€“ Build Back Better Summit ā€“ Results

Steve Blank

With the theme ā€œBuild Back Betterā€ Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what weā€™ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Would customers sit for virtual interviews?

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