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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

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Navigating David vs. Goliath: Unique Strategies For Small Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Leverage Agile Innovation This is where small businesses get to flex their agility. It’s the real-life adventures, like how a family recipe launched a culinary revolution, or a passion for green living birthed a sustainability powerhouse. Yes, please.

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50 Blogs That Will Make You A Better Manager

YoungUpstarts

Agile Management. On this blog, you’ll read about great ideas for becoming a more agile manager. The Agile Executive. Allison Green shares her raw thoughts about management, and how managers can improve on Ask a Manager. Hospitality managers can find great ideas and insight for improvement through this blog.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. They might do anything !

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Here are the first five. It Feels Like 20 Years Ago Today. Team ColorWheels.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. How do you address that? Thus we reduce the risk of deployments.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. One last note on reporting. Sometimes it makes sense to measure the micro-impact of a micro-change. Expo SF (May.