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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Sales process: buyer/ user/ influencer etc.? The Agora team decided to formalize the customer discovery process by coming up with a set of Customer Discovery principles and questions that were as good as any I’ve seen. They also talked by phone to organic farmers in Nebraska and the Santa Cruz mountains.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Lee Redden (MSME Robotics, Jun 2011) Research in haptic devices, autonomous systems and surgical robots, BSME (U Nebraska at Lincoln), Family Farms in Nebraska. Joe Bingold (MBA, Jun 2011) Head of Product Development for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Control Systems, US Navy, MSME (Naval PGS), BSEE (MIT), P.E. Stay tuned.