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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Startups in Bend. What’s Different.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). Here's the official description and lineup: Join us for an evening of Lean Startup talks with a twist. Welcome to our fair city.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. The goal of this talent is to help mentor startups as they scale and navigate the myriad of issues they will face in growing their business.

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