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Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , CustomerDevelopment , Teaching , Venture Capital. The country needs to figure out a long term privatization strategy for Venture investing.
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , CustomerDevelopment , Teaching , Technology , Venture Capital.
Filed under: CustomerDevelopment , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "CustomerDevelopment" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany."
It taught lean theory ( business model design , customerdevelopment and agile engineering) and practice. We use CustomerDevelopment and the Lean LaunchPad to train and accelerate teams U.C. CustomerDevelopment works outside Silicon Valley. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley-wide. We’ve gone global as well.
First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. Today, the successor company serves some 300,000 customers in a series of niche markets including American soldiers calling home from war zones, oil rig managers, and big game hunters. No Business Plan survives first contact with a customer. Lessons Learned.
China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , CustomerDevelopment. Business Model versus Business Plan CustomerDevelopment' Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.)
In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. Filed under: CustomerDevelopment , Secret History of Silicon Valley. CustomerDevelopment Secret History of Silicon Valley' In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell.
Just as Germany’s domination of Western Europe in World War II was eventually undone by its decision to launch a second front by invading Russia, so too unlike a start up, corporate ventures cannot focus solely on winning in the external marketplace. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , CustomerDevelopment.
Entrepreneurs from Japan, France and now Russia believed they could help startups in their country if the Four Steps to the Epiphany was available in their native tongue. Filed under: CustomerDevelopment. All these translations have been crowd-sourced. They translated it at their own expense. Blame it On Eric. Good enough.
Ironically rapid Horizon 3 disruption is most often used not by the market leaders but by the challengers/new entrants (startups, ISIS , China, Russia, etc.). Why Do the Challengers/new Entrants Have the Edge?
Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the CustomerDevelopment method. Reply Ben C. ,
There was a big flap in the press when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to permit Nikita Khrushchev to bring a captured gondola and tour the USA to show what the Government was playing over Russia. The eventual goal of this program would have been to radar-map the Soviet Union.
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