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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com.

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Internet of Things: The Skills Connected Companies Look For In Young Professionals

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IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

That’s why it’s smarter to embrace the agile approach and constantly test your idea on the market to learn about the needs and desires of your target. Reputation will be as important as ever in 2018—only now, it’s more about your brand identity spread through digital channels. Choose the right location.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Without those open and yet expert-filled channels, it might have taken me many years more to correct my naivety and fill out my understanding of core topics.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

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Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels. It was 2003.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. After a few weeks as company, the 3 of us opened a Slack channel to consistently share name ideas that would pop into our heads, it was quantity over quality at this point. Coming up with our name was both fun and extremely frustrating all at the same time.

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