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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. I had to be there. crickets*. This s**t isn’t easy.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. It wasn’t always this way.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2003 U.C. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. Teaching “Search versus Execution”.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2003 U.C. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. Teaching “Search versus Execution”.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. I found the perfect person at the department of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. What follows are solely his opinions. Better yet, he plays drums.