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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Just a crazy idea two years ago, the class is now taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech, Princeton and for the National Science Foundation at the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech.

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Lessons Learned: Ann Mei Chang

Startup Lessons Learned

With Lean Impact , Ann Mei Chang takes us on her journey of trying to bring innovation and social good together. While Eric went on co-found another company and write The Lean Startup , I went on to Google. My search led me to the Global Development Lab at USAID. Thus, Lean Impac t was born. Rather, we believed in data.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

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EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. EP: But our working partnership dates back to when we were both editors on our high school yearbook. IH: We even went to yearbook summer camp together!

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Most Popular. Commented. Are We Really Getting Smarter?

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New Power: An Interview with Henry Timms

Startup Lessons Learned

It was my pleasure to talk with Henry about what he and Heimans have learned about how power structures are changing, how people can get started making the shift from old to new power, how the principles of new power are related to the principles of lean startup, and the responsibilities that come with all the amazing energy being channeled.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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