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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. They were kind enough to open the event up to the public, which meant we were seriously stressing the buildings HVAC - and I have pictures to prove it: Thank you all so much! As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary.

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A Wilderness of Mirrors

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Lessons from Joost

BeyondVC

I am not going to rehash Om Malik's excellent summary of "What went wrong with Joost" but I did want to dive deeper into a few points. As I have always said, raising too much money can be a curse and not a blessing. Here is an excerpt from my post in 2006 Trust me, I love having well capitalized companies. However, having too much money can be a curse, not a blessing.

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Dave Robbins– BigFix CEO, on Top Priorities for Protecting U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Pascal's View

Last Thursday I moderated a panel on the implications of America’s Innovation Crisis for Cybersecurity at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The full transcript of the slides integrated with my prepared remarks is now posted at www.levp.com. This event was sponsored by the non-profit Security Innovation Network. At the end of the panel I asked each of the panelists, Bob Ackerman of Allegis Capital , Professor Randy Katz of Berkeley , and Dave Robbins of BigFix , to answer the fo

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. It allows teams to diagnose sources of waste in their development process and continuously improve, reversing the usual trend of teams getting slower over time.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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Aspen Ideas Festival—The Founding Fathers of Blogging Discuss the End of Media

Pascal's View

I am at an early morning session where Jason Calacanis, CEO of mahalo.com, Nick Denton of Gawker, and Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine and the New York Daily News, discuss the challenges of printed media’s transition to online digital media. This topic and Twitter are big themes at this year’s Ideas Festival, with everyone from Steve Brill to Michael Kinsley, Norman Pearlstine and Katharine Weymouth discussing the former and Peter Hirshberg driving an army of Tweeters at #AIF09 to develop a use case f

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

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Venture capital is dead! Long live venture capital!

VC Adventure

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The Hajj in 3 Minutes | Seth Levine

VC Adventure

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Sounds of silence | Seth Levine

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