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Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

Steve Blank

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 million to educators who want to bring their classroom innovations to a wider audience. National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps model may accelerate that process. Lessons Learned.

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

Before the pandemic hit, Minnesota brand TC Running had two brick-and-mortar stores and zero ecommerce presence. The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood. Even opening a location inside of another store can be a great opportunity to connect with a new audience. Image source ). A different kind of store associate.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. It was the wrong audience. I live in Minnesota. It is ironic.

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