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Be Where Your Business Is

Steve Blank

A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. She’s built a 65-person startup selling enterprise software to the financial services industry. They’re comparing us to another startup in our space that’s growing much faster. Lessons Learned.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

In 1985 the University of Miami held the first national business plan competition. By the end of the 20th century entrepreneurship education fell into two categories: 1) starting small businesses and 2) starting high-growth, high-risk scalable startups. But the case method is the antithesis of how entrepreneurs create a startup.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

In the middle of a Michigan winter, I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Miami, the warmest place I could think of. I managed to find a job at the Miami International Airport loading racehorses onto cargo planes. If I hadn’t discovered something I truly loved to do, I might be driving a cab at the Miami airport.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). Here's the official description and lineup: Join us for an evening of Lean Startup talks with a twist. Welcome to our fair city.