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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.

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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

ReadWriteStart

The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”

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Lean Startup Week Call for Proposals is Open Until July 31

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. Some exciting news about this year’s Lean Startup Week (Oct. This year will be a biggie for the Lean Startup community. What is Your Lean Startup Story? What is Your Lean Startup Story? What We’re Looking For This part hasn’t changed.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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Speak at The Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. Kirsten is leading our program development and speaker selection -- curating a four day, multi-tracked, 2000-person event. We’re reaching into the Lean Startup community to find hidden gems--the stories we don't know (yet).

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Of course, the latter is a better failure mode than the former, but both are sub-optimal, and the solution is predictability. Indeed, blue-sky invention and execution are hard to predict.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

They say things like “There’s a lot of government money and we don’t want to deal with that.” This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Congressmen Daniel Lipinski and Seth Moulton discuss how the government’s innovation efforts are now Lean.

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