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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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But as usual there is a short summary to know the key topics where you can just skip to the critical point in the video you want to watch. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 23:45 In your online course, you talk about what makes startup companies fundamentally different. So what is that?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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You can watch this week’s TWiVC episode by clicking on the link and my summary notes are below. {if It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. (plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Finally, I HATE the name.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Summary notes, as always, provide below. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. It was a pleasure to write them myself.