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7 Entrepreneur Traits That Let You Soar With Angels

Startup Professionals Musings

Early in the relationship, every investor instinctively looks for some key indicators of the ability to get results, like the following: Communicates well in every business medium. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/28/2014.

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Who Dares Wins – The 2nd Annual International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. The Business Plan ?- And your revenue plan is something more than a hallucination.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015.

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. An advance purchase garners a 50 percent discount off the planned price of $100, encouraging investment long in advance of the summer 2014 launch date. Your business’ success depends on a similar feedback loop. Always remember.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. In hindsight, it’s understandable that friends and family were skeptical when we told them about our business. We’d never hired anyone. We’d never had anyone pay us for a product or a service.

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Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2

Steve Blank

Kauffman launched Founders School - a new education series to help entrepreneurs develop their businesses during the startup stage by highlighting how startups are different from big companies. In January 2014 Part 1 of the “ Startups ” section of Founders School went online. 1:28: Using the Business Model Canvas.