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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

Even though there was a real need in the market it wasn’t right (the right time) for a wearable (product). You think they want your product … or you think because you are one of those users everyone would want what you want. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. We were early to the market.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). I-Corps Lite is one more piece of that program. Lessons Learned.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification.