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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

If you're planning to be in Austin, please come say hello. SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH - Hilton Austin Downtown KEYNOTES & CASE STUDIES FROM. (This year, we're battling both the flu and the Congressional sequester.) See you there! THIS SATURDAY! JOIN THE BIGGEST TECH EVENT @SXSW, featuring. 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press!

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

It was a labor of love, and it meant we always had a real voice of the customer right there in the meeting with us. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. It was absolutely worth it.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Use some customer development to find out. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What if its both of you?

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. Federal government should do nothing.