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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

His marketing and sales instincts and skills seemed magical and he built the company into a $400 million OEM supplier, ultimately selling the company to Unisys. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

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

Steve Blank

Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Dollar size of deals is sufficient to be profitable with direct sales strategy. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Personal Libraries. Stay tuned.

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The Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Pivot

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2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. Having gone through 51 iterations of my mockups and gathered as much as feedback as I could with our primitive alpha, I feel confident about our basic customer problem hypothesis.

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