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When customers make you smarter
We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences
We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Well They ‘Should’ Be Our Customers
When scientists and engineers who’ve been working in the lab for years try to commercialize their technology they Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lean startup Lessons and advice Product development
Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences
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Get your 15% Vator discount for FailCon
FailCon 2013 October 21st, 9:00am – 6:00pm Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco After touring over a dozen cities Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
‘This Will Save Us Years’
We’re deep into week 2 of teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, Read More
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HotelTonight’s Jared Simon: we made up some hotels
HotelTonight has been one of the more interesting success stories, since at first glance it would be pretty Read More
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A minimum viable product is not a cheaper product
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice Venture capital
Reinventing Life Science Startups – Part 2
What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their Read More
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How to value and price your startup
When a founder determines it is worth his while to attempt to raise money for his concept, the Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice Marketing
Who’s Doing the Learning?
In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. Read More
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Beachmint CEO Josh Berman’s “six ways to be,” part I
It’s a balmy 79 degrees in LA and life is good. Swimmin’ pools! Movie stars! Etc. etc. The Read More
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China startups – how they differ from US startups
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Read More
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How to Retain Top Talent When Competition is Fierce
In the high-tech world, it’s often hard to retain top talent. And that’s especially true when Google and Read More