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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. A perfect story from the Netherlands in my opinion: Favour.it In addition, we’d been broadcasted on the largest television show here in the Netherlands.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Here’s what happened. Finding The Problems Professor Garcia scoured the world to find eight Wicked/complex problems for students to work on.

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Lean Startup Machine Boulder

Feld Thoughts

What I saw yesterday is further evidence of this – 13 teams spent from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon using the Lean Startup Methodology, the concept of customer development, and the lean startup canvas to go from idea through a series of validated learnings to get to a better idea.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

In the Netherlands being a entrepreneur very unusual. This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Six streaming locations

Startup Lessons Learned

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.