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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) But Will Define Media This Decade

Hunter Walker

Although to be fair, (i) Second Life is still around and profitable and (ii) many of the design choices we made were quite influential on later products. For example, Lenny Rachitsky writes a newsletter devoted to technology and product development. Lean Luxe (business of commerce and brands) has a newsletter and Slack group.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. Product testing. When a company produces their new and exciting product, it is important that they give the customers the best possible option. New Jersey.

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

online.wsj.com

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products. Leather and Leather Products. Lumber and Wood Products. Paper & Allied Products. Rubber and Plastic Products.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Their first product aims to make meetings more productive. Just as important as the product) we did not pay a lot of attention and we’re not particularly intentional about how we were building the company (and its culture.) .

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C