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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. First, do not hire someone just because they have the domain expertise.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We hired outside experts. Of course the naysayers are out again. I was not fried.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Now, as CEO and founder of Carbon Health , Eren is leading one of the country's fastest growing healthcare startups. However, if you went back in time and told Eren a few years ago that he would one day be at the center of one of the largest public health responses in history, I don't think he would have believed you.