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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? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. million CPUs.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund.

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Is it time to rethink the healthcare marketplace model?

Version One Ventures

As you’d imagine, these conversations continuously inform our thesis on healthcare… yet, since investing in Figure 1 in August 2013, we haven’t pulled the trigger on a second investment in this space. Aren’t there network effects in healthcare that we get excited about? What new value can be created? BloomAPI, HumanAPI, Validic).

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) Some of it's communication. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America.

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On Return on Relationship by Ted Rubin and Kathryn Rose

Life Beyond Code

So here’s your new 4-word mktg strategy for 2013: Guess Less, Ask More… and always start with “How can I serve you?”. Consumers who feel valued by a brand will in turn assign value to the brand by buying the product/service and passing recommendations on to their networks. TR: ROI is simple dollars and cents, ROR is about people.