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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

agile engineering. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. The class is organized, led and delivered by Startup Weekend , the global non-profit that teaches entrepreneurs how to launch a startup in 54 hours. customer development.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Mainframe Market

The Startup Magazine

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global crisis of epic proportions—affecting businesses and economies around the world. This allows businesses to leverage new technologies and use popular open source tools with mainframe-oriented languages and automation services.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm. Act Like a Startup.

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An interview with founder, author, and Lean Startup Conference 2018 speaker Aaron Dignan

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s for people who are doing this work day in and day out, and who want to be part of an organization that's trying to do that globally and accelerate the pattern of change. I would love to see a truly cooperative, truly participatory organization at a global scale that exists expressly for the purpose of making the world a better place.

Lean 83
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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. At a time of significant global uncertainty, diplomats are grappling with a set of transnational and cross-cutting challenges that defy easy solution. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities.

Lean 160
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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. At a time of significant global uncertainty, diplomats are grappling with a set of transnational and cross-cutting challenges that defy easy solution. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities.

Lean 120
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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.