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How to Build a Startup

Udacity

3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 1 year, 2015 · score 2.8

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A free Udacity course taught by Steve Blank on building a startup, focused on customer discovery, validating ideas, and testing a business before scaling. It is aimed at people at the very start of founding a company.

Commenters call it excellent and jam packed with resources, and top notch for someone figuring out how to start a startup.

Business, Finance & Economicsbeginnerfreevideo lectures#startups#customer discovery#entrepreneurship#lean startup#steve blank

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20152015

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  1. Strongly recommendsjustjacobmusicr/Entrepreneur2015in “How to find profitable ideas”

    I did this course, and I found that it wasn't very useful. I'm pretty sure the instructor has very limited experience in actually, personally developing innovative ideas for new companies. On the other hand, Steve Blank's free Udacity course How To Build A Startup is excellent and jam packed with…

  2. Strongly recommendsrafagan01r/Entrepreneur2015in “Validating mobile app idea that lets you rent & rent-out private parking spots.”

    definitely research your competition. even though it may not be a 100% original idea, you can make it just different enough to set you apart from the competition. test it out as a beta and go from there! If you need some help figuring out how to start your start-up, this UDACITY course is top…

  3. Recommendsbeaker26r/startups2015in “Starting a start up: general questions”▲ 2

    Don't worry about the business model right now. Your first order of business needs to be customer discovery. You might find that there's a reason no one has solved this problem yet - maybe people aren't willing to pay to solve this problem or maybe there's not a large enough market to make it…

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