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The Entrepreneur's Dilemma: How Do You Know When It's Hopeless?

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

Startups Need Both Profound Beliefs and Customer Input

  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 Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Steve Blank

SNL Humor Can Illustrate [Un]Viable Business Models

In a very funny 2014 skit from Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy plays a founder with a business idea – personally eating people’s leftover pizza – and is trying to get a small business Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Danielle Ailts Campeau and Michelle Somes-Booher

AI Won't Replace Innovators and Fresh Thinking

  How can AI and ChatGPT be useful in a world hungry for solutions to business problems? Will it ever replace people who come up with big ideas -- the entrepreneurs, researchers or scholars? Two Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Robert Buday

AI and ChatGPT Will Revolutionize Customer Discovery

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

Bisociation Teaching Exercise Spurs Business Model Innovation 

Diverse paths lead to entrepreneurial opportunities and innovative business models. Some entrepreneurs arrive at their destination via a deliberate, rational process of search and causal thinking. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Dante Di Gregorio , Joel Ryman and Jennifer Kuan

Can You Afford to Experiment?

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

Entrepreneurship and Thought Leadership's Shotgun Marriage

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