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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

I’ve long been an advocate of using Lean Startup principles to advance non-profits and philanthropic organizations, whose work is so urgently needed at this moment in history. In this blog post, I want to share the story of a lean pop-up organization called HelpKitchen. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry.

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Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

Steve Blank

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science.

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re talking with a firm that mostly only invests in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in Minnesota, you’re probably wasting your time for a seed or A round unless you find somebody at that firm who is from Minneapolis and comes home 2–3x / year already. The third-pass is geography. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

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Before the pandemic hit, Minnesota brand TC Running had two brick-and-mortar stores and zero ecommerce presence. The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood. The trick here is to lean into the things that already work for your brand. Having a digital presence is table stakes, and the data backs it up.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

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Amanda is from Minnesota, which means she is good, smart, and above average in all respects! Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. She also is a cook who is always ready to discuss what we each made for dinner last night and even (on occasion) will let me taste her leftovers at lunch.

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

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