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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy ― demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital.

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy ― demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital.

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. I personally bought the citibank.com URL and introduced the first internet-based online banking.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

Both Sides of the Table

You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. My partner was in product management at Demand Media.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am.

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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. One of the first things we did.