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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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Lean Startup Where You’d Least Expect It

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Blank provides another decision-making heuristic: Think of decisions of having two states: those that are reversible and those that are [.] Good Enough Decision Making [.]

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. So, that's how I came to Silicon Valley in the first place. ER : I remember Speed Date.

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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

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. . ———– The 99%. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

Up and Running

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. A subscription box business plan will include the following components: Executive summary.