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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. Filed under: Customer Development , Technology. Customer Development Technology'

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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 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. When employees take responsibility for delivering on KPIs and client expectations ethically and effectively, they avoid relying on chatbots or other technology to do their jobs for them.

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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 & 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.

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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.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University.