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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup.

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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? Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. 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

Implement “lean startup” principles. The lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries about ten years ago, expedites new business success through iterative solution cycles, focused business experiments, and validated learning. Instead, find a partner with domain experience.

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Lean Thinking

SVPG

I held off a little on this because he has been working on a book which has just recently been published, called “ The Lean Startup ” and in this article I’d like to discuss the key concepts in the book and provide that mapping. The book has a good discussion of the main ways technology products grow. ” Amen.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). 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. Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. We can skip the chasm.