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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. 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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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) As Wicked and Lean seem to be mutually exclusive, this was a pretty audacious undertaking. Instead, using the elements of Lean methodology, they were going to get out of the building and observe the problems first-hand.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. If you look at the Navy force structure today and its plan for the next decade, at first glance you might say they have a diversified portfolio and a plan for more. woke up on Dec.

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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An Introduction To Scaled Agile Framework

YoungUpstarts

The question is, how do you keep your growing business lean? Many companies today realize the importance of being lean. In fact, a recent survey showed that 80% of responding companies said they were using Agile practices in one way or another. How We Can Help You to Master the Scaled Agile Framework. What is SAFe?

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Twitter Link Roundup #125 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Agile is a Sham- [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link].