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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea.

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Evaluating The Viability Of AI In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Enabling AI allows organizations to remain agile in their approach to execution and empower all members of their organizations to reach new heights in achieving results that matter most for the organization and their customers. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California.

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How to Automate Apps with Workflows & Integrations

ConversionXL

monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. For example, here’s an email Airbnb sent to a user showing strong intent to book a place to stay in San Diego: This behavior would have first been recorded by an automation platform or via events in Google Analytics.

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How Modern Businesses Achieve Success with AI Chatbots

YoungUpstarts

Leaders should define KPIs with their teams using an agile approach that ties to top needed results. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California. In short, KPIs are defined early on and consistently reaffirmed, rather than one that is made only in at the beginning of the year.

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Stop Wasting Time In Meetings!

YoungUpstarts

by Mike Richardson , author of “ Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto “ Technology is constantly speeding up the pace of business: Decisions once delayed for weeks are now made in seconds thanks to internet communication. Here are some tips for developing agile meetings with traction: Map your meeting.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Each of the six teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem and then gave an 8-minute presentation of their Lessons Learned over the 10-weeks.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Fifth , would other schools be interested in offering this class? 15 more schools are in the pipeline. Lessons Learned.