Sat.Feb 23, 2013

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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Steve Blank

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is a co-author of The GE Work-Out and The Boundaryless Organization. His latest book is Simply Effective. For what I had thought were a few simple ideas about taking what we’ve learned about startups and applying it to corporate innovation, the post

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Sneak preview of the new Lean UX Book

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Startups require cross-functional teams working closely together. This is especially true when designing a great product. In this excerpt from the newest addition to the Lean Series , Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden discuss the idea of collaborative design -- an opening up of the product design process to all members of the team -- and why they feel this way of working produces not just better products but better teams as well.

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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Steve Blank

'My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is a co-author of The GE Work-Out and The Boundaryless Organization. His latest book is Simply Effective. For what I had thought were a few simple ideas about taking what we’ve learned about startups and applying it to corporate innovation, the pos

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More Netsuite service as software

deal architect

Google “Workday NetSuite Integration” and you find talent like Dell Boomi Integration Services Experts and implementation services to build a “list of business objects for the integration”. Can be labor intensive when you extrapolate across the wide number of customers.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The Ebb and Flow of Work and Life

Feld Thoughts

The phrase “work-life balance” is a vexing one. Some people think it is impossible. Others strive for it. Many entrepreneurs, and pundits about entrepreneurship, reject it as impossible. Others believe that figuring out how to balance work and life is a sign of a more enlightened entrepreneurial perspective. In Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur Amy and I talk about many of the tactics we use to integrate work and life, which Amy loving refe

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The Incredible Power of Mastermind Groups

Growthink Blog

For the past 5 years, I have been part of several mastermind groups that have helped me dramatically grow several of my own businesses. Below I will explain to you what mastermind groups are and how they can benefit you and your business. What is a Mastermind Group? read more.

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Weekend Favs February Twenty Three

Duct Tape Marketing

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. I’m in Phoenix this week and snapped this on a hike.

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I made some flashcards with ideas for better custdev conversations

The Startup Toolkit

false I helped[1] make a set of online flashcards with a few tips and ideas about how to talk to customers. Click one of the cards below to head over to custdevcards.com and check out the full set. What did we miss? Tweet me ( @robfitz ) with your ideas for new cards and we’ll credit you on the card if we add it. [1] This was a quickie collaboration with Sal Virani and Devin Hunt.

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7 Lessons on Managing Risk From Olympic Champions

Startup Professionals Musings

Willingness to take a risk is the hallmark of a serious entrepreneur. That’s why one of the first questions that potential investors ask is “How much of your own money, and friends and family, have you put into the new business?” If you won’t risk yours, you won’t get investors to risk theirs. A while back I read the book “ When Turtles Fly ” by Nikki Stone, an Olympic champion, which explains this well.