Customer-development process, meanwhile, provides a real-world way of testing the business plan's various hypotheses, as written in the canvas' nine blocks.

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If the next stage of testing goes according to plan, Mortimer says that work will soon begin on a fleet of the turbines -- manufactured by Andritz Hydro Hammerfest -- and will be installed at another site in the Sound of Islay off the west coast of Scotland.

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The lay trust said it fully supports a plan by Catholic bishops to phase out the practice of testing 11 year olds.

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That outbreak and others prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to announce a plan in December to increase testing for salmonella at poultry processing plants.

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And she was still going back and forth with the state department of water resources for her drinking water sampling and testing plan.

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The food trucks are currently racing to get up and running, having already undergone a rigorous testing process that included a presentation of their business plan, a proposed theme and menu, and a cook-off.

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Bosse points to a study conducted by the Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses, a 25-member group of biologists, engineers and statisticians representing federal entities, states and tribes, that compared upriver stocks of salmon to downriver socks.

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More specifically, rather than provide a long manifesto of the theory behind lean startup, Udacity breaks down the process of launching a business into practical steps for systematically testing hypotheses and developing a business plan that will actually work.

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India's own strategic plan for TB calls for improving medical care in the private sector, in addition to scaling up testing and treatment of drug resistance nationwide.

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