Watch Steve Bank videos on customer discovery & building a startup

For all of us launching, working at, and advising startups, I encourage you to add to your “personal learning plan” the time to watch the videos below used by many programs on entrepreneurship including the National Science Foundation (NSF) program called I-Corp. https://new.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/i-corps I recommend that you first watch the Steve Blank videos on Customer Discovery, the process of interviewing people in possible target markets to test your business hypotheses. I was doing these interviews incorrectly, hence my strong endorsement of these: https://www.midatlanticicorps.com/explore/startup-resources Then watch Steve Blank’s series, The Lean LaunchPad, How To Build A Startup, which consists of 220 lectures in 9 sections that follow the Business Model Canvas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZvgj6B2JZs&list=PLAwxTw4SYaPnxzSuovATBMrNowGaaEBmW

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