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

Startup Lessons Learned

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

As entrepreneurs, more than any other industry, we’re in the meritocracy business. If women face structural barriers to becoming entrepreneurs, then those few who are able to overcome those barriers are probably exceptional to begin with. Or, maybe it is true that women make better entrepreneurs than men.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? million acres of land.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Yet like passionate entrepreneurs, the team ignored our advice and pressed on. (To Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

For entrepreneurs looking to start a business or for established businesses looking to pivot their business model , you can use AI to build as-a-service operations. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

The startups in our Lean LaunchPad classes and the NSF I-Corps incubator use LaunchPad Central to collect a continuous stream of data across all the teams. The Power of the Investment Readiness Level: Different Metrics for Different Industry Segments. Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for Corporations and Investors. Medical Devices.

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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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