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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Refine your elevator pitch. Recruiting Startup Engineers Engineers are humans, we have bills to pay, families to take care of, friends that we want to spend time with, and on occasion indulge in the latest tech gadget. Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network.

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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Just like catching a bug in development is cheaper than fixing it once it has been released, confirming lack of customer demand prior to ramping up a sales engine is cheaper than finding out once you have a paid sales team.

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Quiet Giants

Eric Friedman

Everyone seems to have their elevator pitch down of themselves, their company, and what they are doing. This has everything to do with the engineering talent working on a problem, the NPS score from customers, and the paying clients that are excited to tell a friend about what they are doing.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Elevator Pitches. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â??

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. Find elevator pitches.

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