The+New+Venture+Strategy+Guide

This wiki section is inspired by the design work of IDEO (see also The Ten Faces of Innovation) and the "anti-traditional" guidance from entrepreneurial visionaries like Steve Blank and Bob Dorf. //**By definition, a start-up is a temporary organization**//. This temporary organization ceases to exist when it finds a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model or fails. This wiki section will be continually revised and updated to help my students achieve entrepreneurial success.

Steve Blank questions the wisdom of being first to market in this 2-minute excerpt from a presentation he made at Stanford in November, 2009. Source: Stanford University's Education Corner, accessed January 30, 2013. || media type="custom" key="22052714" || //** Read **// this Craigslist case study. Address the following questions:
 * The business of design thinking - Harvard Magazine, Jan-Feb 2013 || @http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-business-of-design-thinking ||
 * ==First to market wins, right?==
 * ==Craiglist.com==
 * ==Craiglist.com==
 * What was the innovation behind the Craigslist concept?
 * What are some of Craiglist's competitive advantages?
 * Evaluate the challenges to Craigslist as it grows globally. How can it overcome these challenges? || [[file:Craigslist Case.pdf]] ||