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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? It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. For the past three months, we’ve run an experiment in teaching entrepreneurship. When I realized they were all for our class, I could start to relax.

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Hacking 4 Recovery – Time to Take A Shot

Steve Blank

We could offer a 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad / Hacking For Defense / National Science Foundation I-Corps class that’s trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. In aggregate they interviewed 2,259 customers. But it just wasn’t the aggregate numbers that were impressive it was how much they learned in five days.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular. There is also a reported 8 billion videos viewed per day. I would also point out that Snapchat is becoming one of THE places to see breaking news on video in a way that isn’t reported widely enough. Engagement.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

To find out how, watch the video above, or check out the transcript below. You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. Read the transcript: Sabrina Parsons: Hey, everybody.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate

Venture Chronicles

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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