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The Lean Startup Book Tour

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, September 13, 2011 is launch day ! At 11:45am I'll be honored to share the stage with two great entrepreneurs: Introducing The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom And in the evening, the book launch party is also part of Disrupt. You can grab one here. Register here.

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Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. —– In August 2011 I received an email from someone at NYU I never heard of. Spread it Widely. Student Impact.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011. So, here is my assignment.

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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Maybe you could get v1.0

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Sponsored Links His start-up Viddy, launched in early 2011, created a smartphone app that allows people to capture, enhance and share video and already has 40 million registered users. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.