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Test Your Startup Idea in One Day Start with a landing page for your product or service idea, promote it, and gather feedback from potential customers. In the early stages of building an idea, customer discovery is a critical step. Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Max Mirho
Many entrepreneurs launch a venture with great certainty, passion, and grand hopes for the future. However, at some point the dream begins to dim. They might receive negative feedback about their Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Vincent DeFilippo
In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.” You can't be an Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Steve Blank
![SNL Humor Can Illustrate [Un]Viable Business Models](https://storage.googleapis.com/eix-public-content/submissions/905/Featured.cd374607.png)
The pizza eating skit from SNL has become a way to introduce students to the concept of business models and the business model canvas in a humorous and memorable way. In a very funny 2014 skit from Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Danielle Ailts Campeau and Michelle Somes-Booher
AI Won't Replace Innovators and Fresh Thinking Tom Davenport, an acclaimed author of AI books, and Glenn Leibowitz, recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice, say AI and ChatGPT are no substitute for original thinking. How can AI and ChatGPT be useful Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Robert Buday
EDITOR'S NOTE: Steve Blank has had a celebrated career as a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Lean Startup movement, which for the first time gave startups a methodology for success. Best known Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Steve Blank
This teaching exercise focuses on generating novel combinations of existing business models, products/services and markets. Diverse paths lead to entrepreneurial opportunities and innovative business Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Dante Di Gregorio , Joel Ryman and Jennifer Kuan
Lean Startup & Minimum Viable Products have replaced planning and are helping entrepreneurs find product-market fit more quickly. But these tools also have costs and risks. Historically, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Andrea Contigiani
As digital technologies continue to fuel the rise of new companies around the world, it's easy to presume that raising money is the startups’ biggest challenge. But a larger and often-overlooked Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Robert Buday