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The Woodstock of K-12 Education

Steve Blank

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class is the canonical model of such a class, with versions now taught in hundreds of colleges and universities.). On Fire With A Vision.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs.

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How Decisions Define Our Business Destiny

Duct Tape Marketing

02:15] What’s a typical day of turns for an entrepreneur? [03:25] So, I mean, what's a typical day of turns, you know, look like for an entrepreneur? In the day of an entrepreneur. Finally, it’s important to be adaptable and learn from hindsight to make better decisions in the future. Steve McKee (12:47): That's right.

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How to Hire the Best: An Interview with Dr. Sabrina Starling

Mike Michalowicz

I started receiving phone calls from entrepreneurs all over the country. The ones that really took me aback were the ones that came in from major metropolitan areas, such as San Francisco, New Jersey, and Denver. The thing for us entrepreneurs to wrap our heads around is that only about 10 percent of the population is A-Players.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities. So we are now very well-versed in being parents and entrepreneurs. We looked at ourselves and we said, what are we best at?