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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

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. The Agora team decided to formalize the customer discovery process by coming up with a set of Customer Discovery principles and questions that were as good as any I’ve seen.

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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

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If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. If you are interested in starting a business in Lincoln, check out these resources: Starting a Business in Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business. Community Development Resources Nebraska.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Whats on your technology toolbelt? more in Small Business. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. link] [link] --> By DEBORAH GAGE. It looks so easy from the outside. Massachusetts. Mississippi. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. You make more black socks for more people in the western world than anyone. The next generation isn't interested in socks. One daughter is touring nationally with her punk band. remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers?

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Students Show The Way For Technology Innovation At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

For over 350 students from 75 countries around the world participating in the upcoming worldwide finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Sydney, things will certainly be tough – they will be pitted against each other with their ideas around technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Inspiring A New Generation. Imagine Cup Grants.

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5 Reasons Investors Should Keep Their Eyes On Omaha, Nebraska

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”? Warren Buffett is known to avoid embracing new technologies ever since his famous remark during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s that he doesn’t invest in technology because he doesn’t understand it. But not for long.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. He sits on the House committee that oversees the NSF - the Science, Space and Technology committee (a place where his engineering degree and PhD comes in handy.) If you like science, technology or entrepreneurship, this guy is the real deal. He gets it.

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