As a medical student seeking to learn the principles of entrepreneurship, I have found Steve Blank’s insight to be a great guide and resource. His Harvard Business Review article, entitled “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything,” was my first exposure to the idea of customer discovery.

The idea of customer discovery is a simple practice — listening intimately to multiple customers’ needs and pain points and using it to inform …

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As a medical student looking to explore entrepreneurship, I quickly came across Shiv Gaglani’s October 2013 article in Entrepreneur, entitled “Why Medical Schools are Pumping Out Entrepreneurs,” in which he the highlights similarities and differences he sees between medical students and entrepreneurs. I was struck by his proposed differences — he does not share his take on their origins, so I have come to delineate my own view.

Medical students …

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