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

Steve Blank

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Tiffani Bell , co-founder of the Detroit Water Project. Tiffani Bell is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Water Project , a platform that connects donors to people in Detroit and Baltimore in need of assistance paying their water bills. Clay Hebert.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, Herzliya in Israel, Zhongguancun for software and Shenzen for hardware in China are examples of technology clusters, but so was Detroit for cars, Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion.). (An Innovation Cluster is a concentration of interconnected companies that both compete and collaborate.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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

Steve Blank

Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Tiffani Bell , co-founder of the Detroit Water Project ; and Clay Hebert , founder of Crowdfunding Hacks. Not just a problem in terms of access to technology. (It’s

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.