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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). For example, in Detroit and Baltimore you can lose your kids over not having water in your house.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? In Baltimore, I’d start by working at the Beehive coworking space , attending some Bmore on Rails events , searching for other technically-themed meetups , visiting the Node , and getting involved with Betascape.

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Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder

blog.launchbit.com

There are a lot of aspects to this ranging from finding your first paying customer and validating your idea to putting together a minimum viable product that lets you learn about your business as quickly as possible. Be able to talk about your competitors products and differentiate your product. Be realistic. Mar 10, 2011.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. So we did the opposite and leaned into it adopting the “Why Buy Me” strategy of seeking people out who either understood the power of LA or were persuadable.

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Johns Hopkins’ business school for anti-MBAs – Oct. 21, 2010

Campus Entrepreneurship

Its great to have another innovative, research university in the Baltimore-DC metro entering the business school market. “Over the years,&# Gupta says, “I came to the conclusion that we leaned too hard on the science of business. I have been excited about the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School for a few years now.

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Johns Hopkins’ Business School for anti-MBAs

Campus Entrepreneurship

Its great to have another innovative, research university in the Baltimore-DC metro entering the business school market. “Over the years,&# Gupta says, “I came to the conclusion that we leaned too hard on the science of business. I have been excited about the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School for a few years now.