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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Are You And Your New Venture Positioned For Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

The best founders operate with a key set of internal principles that allow them to break through all but the toughest business obstacles. He cites several studies, in addition to his own experience, that highlight the following key people drivers to business success: Founders need to be driven by impact rather than money.

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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. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). credit App Annie. social media.

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Founders are building small, focused teams based on people they worked with previously and referrals from their networks. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days.

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Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?

ReadWriteStart

They explained they were building it "stealth". Interestingly, very active angel and COO at Square , Keith Rabois weighted in on Quora in response to the question: "What are some concrete reasons for *actively* stealthing a startup?" Saying you are a "stealth" company with no details certainly doesn't leave much to go on.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. His work at ESL made him one of the 10 founders of National Reconnaissance. Using the Lean LaunchPad methodology our teams do much more than just build a product or understand customer problems/needs. Dr. Perry eventually became the 19th secretary of defense.