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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. Expo SF (May.

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The Lean Startup Bundle

Startup Lessons Learned

We also reached out to companies that make products useful to accelerating your Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop, from cloud-hosted Selenium provider Sauce Labs (disclaimer: where I have equity) to ScrumPad (where I dont) and many in-between (a sampling is below, but you should really jus t click through to see the whole smorgasbord).

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Offer equity instead of cash. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Everybody should be selling. Selling is an honorable profession. Expo SF (May.

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1 Store, 1000 Times: Five Questions with Philz Coffee CEO Jacob Jaber

Hunter Walker

We will be starting in a few lovely communities in Washington DC which is a great milestone for us. HW: Lots of capital – both venture and private equity – have moved into the coffee retail space in recent years. Our goal is 1 store 1000 times. More important than the actual message is the spirit of it.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. This is a good thing. (I I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.)

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

With offices in Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston, Chicago and Washington, DC, this is the one DoD organization with the staffing and mandate to match commercial startups or scaleups to pressing national security problems. In the last few years new venture capital and private equity firms have raised money to invest in dual-use startups.

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