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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. Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. What if I was wrong? The First Class.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. They are closing orders. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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