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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. 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.

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Startup venture and alumni funds

VC Cafe

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

At this point, we have our own open-sourced click tracking "lil brother," an internal data visualization tool built on Rickshaw, as well as an A/B testing platform called Absinthe. We''ve had to design and implement training programs to help on-board people to our culture and technology.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. 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.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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