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Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford
Silicon Valley
Joined March 2009
The measure of a life is not time. It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. Your report-card is whether the world is a better place.
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Why Investors Don't Care About Your Business darn autocorrect!.
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Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won…
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Congratulations to team Usul from Stanford's Hacking for Defense class
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Usul (YC S24) helps defense contractors win more DoD contracts. They use AI to make it easy for companies to interpret government policy, track funding lines, and strategize the best opportunities...
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Back together to create a disturbance in the force #entrepreneurship #startup #customerdevelopment #leanstartup
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A must read if you're in Edtech
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Resources created and curated by Reach Capital to help founders build successful edtech businesses
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When companies stop dreaming about the future they’ll find themselves living in the past.
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Founders need to be ruthless when chasing deals
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One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be th…
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RT @EvansRyan202: Read the 1st @BedrockSaaS blog post, describing the future of professional learning & how we have built it in Bedrock, ou….
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Getting Beyond Innovation Theater - Nov 16 - 10am PST - Fireside chat
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Why Bill Gurley Was Wrong - Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get It Wrong -
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Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. The first part was railing against the conse…
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Third year of our Stanford Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class
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The law of strategic planning: the number of people involved in creating the plan is inversely proportional to the actual amount of strategy it contains.
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush @DeptofDefense
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I just saw the movie Oppenheimer. A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to…
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This approach is a game-changer for how companies are built via @davidschonthal @Gartner Talent Angle
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems - @imperialcollege #Innovation Or how I spent my summer vacation.
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This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean moral…
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