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

Steve Blank

The key assumptions are: offering not just a product, but a complete service (installation, rebates, and financing when necessary,) reduce the manufacturing cost of current wind turbines, provide home owners with a cool and sustainable symbol (achieving “Prius” status.). Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Everyone: Update your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Come up with ways to test: is a business worth pursuing (market size). each of the hypotheses.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

He published our first wiki where the whole list of potential features were outlined. Many people at a young startup are trying to manage their finances like the rest of their user base. He made customer-to-customer dialog possible and visible. And he gave them all early access to our prototypes for reaction.

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[Singapore] Crowdsourcing Week – Crowdsourcing Soon To Come Of Age In Asia

YoungUpstarts

The week was kickstarted by an opening address from Sean Moffitt of Wiki Brands (left), where he shared insights about the growth of the crowdsourcing industry, how meritocracy can drive the trend, and some of the industries that will be impacted by crowdsourcing including education, finance and retail.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie. link] # 4 hours ago Going #lean and testing with imagemaps, cuz concepts are cheap and code is expensive. # 4 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 4: Make something very useful drop-dead simple to use, ie.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

www.quora.com

Mark Suster • Nov 1, 2010 Here is a post on Brad Feld's blog on the seed financing docs he found, some of which you mention: [link] chives/. Fenwick & West has a great, very thorough document about financings, term sheets and so forth: https://docs.google.com/v iewer?u. Was hoping to link to just the term sheet.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Go ahead and try it, then come back. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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