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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?

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No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models

Steve Blank

He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. This was the second of three “office hours” I was holding that morning for ex students.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. He warns that although quality and prize money vary from competition to competition, they can be a great way to practice pitching in a setting designed for getting feedback. Tim advises entrepreneurs to check out this list of competitions.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

I would think you would want to at least be cautious in discussing your virtualization idea with someone at VMware, your search idea with Google, etc. The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from. link] Marco.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

crowdSPRING Blog

Web search existed before Google. As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier.