Steve Blank: The International Business Model Competition

http://steveblank.com/2011/01/27/7719/

by amirmc • 15 years ago

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ryanelkins• 15 years ago

I was at the lunch he mentioned - we have a good startup community here in Utah but it was surprising to see the number of people that showed up to hear him. I hope to see the number of scalable startups in Utah increase over time.

zachallaun2• 15 years ago

Being one of the few teams not from BYU, I was initially a bit worried about potential biases in judging. Quite to the contrary, the people at BYU were incredibly kind and welcoming, and made the experience a generally awesome one.

My co-founder and I had the fortune to spend a large part of the weekend with a CS PhD candidate from University College London. He had been a part of Business Plan competitions run in the London area for the last few years, and was effectively sent as an envoy to see the benefit of a Business Model competition. After talking to him and competing in said competition, I've come to realize the underlying benefit: The emphasis on input over output truly puts BYU's competition above the rest in terms of practicality and learning.

As an aside, my co-founder and I make up Gamegnat, the team that took first place at the competition. We're currently exploring options for MVP creation, and would love to talk to anyone with a passion for gaming and web development that may be interested in working with us in a founder (significant equity) or freelancer (cash) capacity. See profile for contact info.

justinmares• 15 years ago

Congrats on winning the competition! I did a bit of searching and saw your presentation, http://prezi.com/iyjcef23lmez/copy-of-gamegnat-bmc/.

Wow. Did you use powerpoint to make that? It's one of the best presentations I have ever seen. Good luck developing the MVP, it looks like it could be a fantastic community.

sandipagr• 15 years ago

It's using Prezi. I agree the presentation is top notch. No surprises they won!

randall• 15 years ago

Go utah!

I just moved back to Utah from SF. Thinking about a HN meetup.

http://utahack.com

Anyone interested? Hit up the site and fill out the form.

Also would love to hear of any if you know of any.

Steve Blank: The International Business Model Competition

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