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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Today, I'm excited to share the latest round of startups that are being run by the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. for Harvard Business Revie.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 You can see the design of the program here.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

She and Raylene Young, who you'll hear in a minute, have collaborated to form the USDR, The United States Digital Response, activating an entire network of government technologists, lean and agile practitioners, to bring them together with state and local governments solving problems of immediate need. Raylene Yung : I was in a funny boat.

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Think Big, Start Small: The Story of a Startup

Up and Running

Tim tells me that before joining the MBA program, he has never had experience owning or running a business. The program was an opportunity learn to do this but also to get to know people and teachers. In business this is known as the MVP or ‘Minimum Viable Product’. What aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from ReefCam.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. for Harvard Business Revie. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. Expo SF (May.