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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

I concluded that my first job was to understand what Cray’s markets, customers and applications. When I learned that Cray users would be giving papers at the Society of Petroleum Engineering conference in Denver the next day, I got on a plane to listen and learn.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Bend’s economic development agency ( EDCO ) has worked very hard to establish direct flights to major West Coast cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Denver. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Venture Capital. Local Early-Stage Risk Capital.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management. Others Are Doing this As Well.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.