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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

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. He sits on the House committee that oversees the NSF - the Science, Space and Technology committee (a place where his engineering degree and PhD comes in handy.) If you like science, technology or entrepreneurship, this guy is the real deal. He gets it.

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