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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Prior to founding Keen Home , Nayeem Hussain spent his career focusing on M&A, corporate development/strategy, and financial analysist, first at Prudential Financial and then at Loral Space & Communications. Will : Yes, (although)… Columbus, Ohio, has come a long ways, frankly, from a venture perspective.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

Steve Blank

Before founding 2U, Jeremy developed Zinch, intended to be a virtual guidance counselor to help low-income students navigate the college application process. We were looking for four students for the program, four developers in training, and we ended up getting 700 applicants in a week. New Targets & Innovative Approaches.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

Steve Blank

Before founding 2U, Jeremy developed Zinch, intended to be a virtual guidance counselor to help low-income students navigate the college application process. We were looking for four students for the program, four developers in training, and we ended up getting 700 applicants in a week. New Targets & Innovative Approaches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. Steve Blank has been a mentor to me for several years.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Matt Armstead , a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Lumos Innovation , which helps Ohio-area founders launch their startup ideas. Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. Matt Armstead. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Matt Armstead , a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Lumos Innovation , which helps Ohio-area founders launch their startup ideas. Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. Matt Armstead. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere: Show No. 33: David Comisford and Omar Zenhom

Steve Blank

Over time it became an online book rental platform serving Ohio. We developed a simple algorithm for pricing the textbooks, predicting when a price would fluctuate, when a book would go out of print, that kind of thing. I developed it as much as I could.” Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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