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The Lean Startup Book Tour

Startup Lessons Learned

At 11:45am I'll be honored to share the stage with two great entrepreneurs: Introducing The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom And in the evening, the book launch party is also part of Disrupt. We'll be in the concourse from 5:30-7:30pm. You can grab one here. Employees only.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan enabled me to detect bat calls in audio).

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The Power Of Regret

Duct Tape Marketing

And the curious thing though, was when I came back and started, when I very sheep started talking to people about these, my regrets, instead of people recoiling in the way that I kind of expected people leaned in, they wanted to talk about it and that's, and that was, it was very intriguing. I don't regret not doing that. Probably not.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. There are and we do.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

It ended with a large layoff and a transfer of jobs from NY to California and Bangalore. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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How To Use Immersion To Create Amazing Experiences

Duct Tape Marketing

If I, if you've used my service before or have your IP address, I could say, Hey, welcome Paul from I'm in Loma Linda Paul from Loma Linda, California. And I think leaning into that, that I want to help this customer, I created this emerging experience, it's been targeted to you. So with technology we can do that, right? powered by.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. As a going away gift my roommates got me a joke disguise kit with a fake nose, glasses and mustache. But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional.