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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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