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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

as well as channel partners and cloud industry technology consultants. by modeling wind speed, energy costs, homeownership density and green energy incentives. They also talked by phone to organic farmers in Nebraska and the Santa Cruz mountains. Agora was in a classic two-sided market (having both buyers and sellers.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

I explained that the goal of the Innovation Corps was to bridge what the NSF calls the “ditch of death” – the gap between when NSF research funding runs out and when a team is credible enough (with enough customer and market knowledge) to raise private capital or license/partner with existing companies. Lessons Learned.

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