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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. As RFP-EZ is tested and scaled, a new effort will be launched to improve Federal procurement by building a portal of prices paid by agencies under their contracts.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

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“The idea is that when you work backwards and start with the press release, it’s easier to put yourself in the customer’s shoes.”. Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external) fail, and how the new product will blow away existing solutions. Image source ).

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. Almost any startup - in any industry - can use AWS to find and serve customers. You’ll get awesome video content, including the video Lean Startup course I created exclusively for Udemy. How many copies will this book sell in its first week – real, hardcover, paper copies?

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. The first being that there has to be congruence between your startup’s concept and location.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I thought I would come and there would be just massive buildings, really like technology infrastructure and squeeze everybody.