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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

How can we attract buyers to our channel before they make purchasing decisions? as well as channel partners and cloud industry technology consultants. They also talked by phone to organic farmers in Nebraska and the Santa Cruz mountains. Then different again for direct and indirect channels. Demand generation?

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

what distribution channel? Off to a running start, they not only wrote down their initial business model hypotheses but they immediately got out of the building and began interviewing prospective customers to test their three most critical assumptions in any business: Value Proposition , Customer Segment and Channel.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Stephen DiMagno University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Artificial Membrane-based Ion Channel Screening. If you can’t see the video above, click here. If you can’t see the presentation above, click here. Radiotracer Synthesis Commercialization. If you can’t see the video above click here.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack. Tool: Radian6 (Salesforce) URL: Radian6.com It’s decent at capturing blog and Twitter-based content but not as accurate at capturing content that is behind a ‘sign-in’ gate, most notably Facebook.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

investing in Everlywell, Moderne Ventures (Chicago), and Wavemaker Partners (Singapore) to invest in Icon, and investors from Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado joined a Houston-based venture firm to invest in Televet, an Austin based Veterinary Clinic Management platform. all Bay Area firms?—?investing

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