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Thanksgiving Day

Steve Blank

Since our kids were little our Thanksgiving tradition was to head to Hawaii with friends and eat Thanksgiving dinner under the palm trees to the sound of the waves next to the warm ocean. ( So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.” Reply ericnakagawa , on May 27, 2009 at 1:03 am Said: I was raised in a pretty rough neighborhood (Halawa Housing, in Hawaii). Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

No university has said, “We should design the institution to have a bigger impact using academic work and join up with outside entities and organizations and partners to do that.” The importance of actually doing good instructional design, was pointed out as is time consuming and significant work to do up front.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

She returned to her home state of Hawaii to become a mentor and advisor to tech accelerators and startups, and a parent of two before launching Hobnob. In both of her startups, Tina did a lot of customer discovery to understand customer problems and see if her products offered the right solution.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

She returned to her home state of Hawaii to become a mentor and advisor to tech accelerators and startups, and a parent of two before launching Hobnob. In both of her startups, Tina did a lot of customer discovery to understand customer problems and see if her products offered the right solution.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

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” You’re like, “Oh” and you’re lawyers in Hawaii. You need to go out and do some customer development. We were going to do to this fund thing that people can design T-shirts and people vote on it and then whichever one won, it’s like, “Someone has now done that.”