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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints.

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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

They are difficult to modernize – The ability to update the systems aboard these platforms, even the software systems, still takes years to accomplish. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. Instead, iterative design approaches dominate software design. If the primary asset of the U.S.

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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." We're back! Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW!

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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. In software terminology, communication challenges scale as O(n 2 ). All hardware and software systems have bottlenecks. Indeed, blue-sky invention and execution are hard to predict.