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While entrepreneurship is in the news fairly regularly, I seldom make news myself.  Today, however there are two important updates for entrepreneurs everywhere.  Let me be brief… The “Startup Owner’s Manual” goes On Press Tuesday 2/14 Two years in the making and literally ten years in development, I’m proud to announce that my new book, [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

same Steve Blank which had been teaching Finns why they need American startup environment :-/ - A. T.

This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other $57 billion come from? From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

I was lucky enough to get interviewed by Rob Morris of American Entrepreneur Radio. Ron Morris has a great “radio voice,” and actually seemed to understand what the heck I was talking about.  It made for a fun interview. Click here to listen to the interview: Steve Blank American Entrepreneur Radio interview The following week Ron Morris interviewed [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

MC and Visa too? how they're gonna do business then? - A. T.

The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps is a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here. The 21 NSF teams had been out of the classroom for just 15 hours as they filed back in with their business model canvas presentations.  Their [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Over the last two months the U.S. government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. This week we saw the results. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks, [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

похож - earlyadopter

Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds SEAL Team saying Over the last 40 years Technology investors have learned that the success of startups are not just about the technology but “it’s about the team.” We spent a year screwing it up in our Lean LaunchPad classes until we figured out it was [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

о, ты тоже там был? мы впереди в центральном ряду сидели - Ещё быстрей Гонсалес

Сидели мы, как понятно по первому снимку, подальше - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

лекция онлайн тоже транслируется, кстати - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Тогда я one degree of separation от пистолета Дзержинского :) я читал в углу библиотеки его, на ступеньках, которые что бы книги доставать с верхних полок - домой не давали. Бывает же рядом. - xekc

installed it. - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ from Bookmarklet

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

we miss him still - Winckel

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw We’re in the middle of our National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class – taking the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and teaching these scientists the basics of entrepreneurship. Our [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

just tested: my provider (comcast) does not throttle bit torrent - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ from Bookmarklet

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain Venture Capitalists who are serious about turning their firms into more than one-fund wonders may want to have their associates actually start and run a company for a year.  Running a company is distinctly different [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Read part 1 of this post for background. By the early 1920’s General Motors realized that Ford, which was now selling the Model T for $290, had an unbeatable monopoly on low-cost automobile manufacturing. Other manufacturers had experimented with selling cars based on an image and brand. (The most notable was an ad by the [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

It was the most advanced consumer product of the century. The industry started with its innovators located in different cities over a wide region. But within 20 years it would be concentrated in a single entrepreneurial startup cluster. At first it was a craft business, then it was driven by relentless technology innovation and then [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. (Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

"Ultimately, Nokia’s difficulties will turn out to be good news for Finnish entrepreneurs. They’ve stopped hiring the best talent, and startups are not looking so risky compared to large companies." - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

if only rest of casual suspects (state and big capital) wouldn't mess on meadow... - A. T.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I, Scene 2 With 37 mllion people it’s remarkable that California has one of the most pristine and unspoiled coastline in the United States. One man and the organization he’s built is responsible for [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

"The almost 400 mile coast drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco is one the road trips you need to do before you die." - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails, Nodes.js and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. (Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.) But for the rest of us mortals whose eyes glaze over at the buzzwords, the questions are, [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Is it "waiters can do it" or those who can are working as waiters because too many people are able to do it? :) - earlyadopter

^ I know a history student who used to work as a bartender and moonlighted making websites. His cocktails were good, his websites were awful. - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur” and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. ——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach, and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship.  After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple [...] - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

«There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business, small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur. All of the individuals who start these organizations are “entrepreneurs” yet not understanding their differences screws up public policy because the ecosystem in supporting each type is radically different.» - 9000

«To date, Israel is only country that has engineered a successful entrepreneurship cluster from the ground up. It’s Yozma program kick-started a private venture capital industry with government funds, (emulating the U.S. lesson of using SBIC funds.), but then the government got out of the way.» - 9000