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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). And going for crowdfunding before you do customer discovery with customers can lock you into the wrong idea too early. Yore launching to the customers you’ve already discovered and validated your ideas. . …

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? Steve, thanks so much for joining us today! What brings you to LA?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

A tech entrepreneur and inventor, Brandon McNaughton was entrepreneur in residence for Detroit Innovate , an early-stage venture fund. Relationships with customers, it’s relationships with your employees, your investors, because when you buy something, there’s an expectation, there’s a back and forth. .

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One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steve Blank

Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. Bet Ann Arbor and the Detroit Metro area have a few startups in that space. The Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School is akin to Stanford’s STVP program. It offers 35 entrepreneurship courses.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. We pivoted the company toward what the market wanted, and what our users and customer wanted, but away from my initial vision and passion. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. .

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. Thus engineers who have the know how would be an asset. All what you said is so true. How To Get There. [.]