Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

My new book with Ian Hathaway, The Startup Community Way , is officially out. I’ve now written seven of them, all about startups and entrepreneurship. Some of the inspiration for The Startup Community Way came from Eric Ries. This was analogous to what happened with Startup Communities.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Really, there’s no better way to recharge and return to work inspired than spending a few days with the Lean Startup’s global network. A Lean Startup training kinda guy? Join us Nov. But wait — there’s more.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“A remarkably useful playbook that every business, government, and nonprofit needs to ignite the spark of innovation and fuel the fire of change.” My UK publisher has put together a packed schedule and I can’t wait to talk about The Startup Way across the pond. Next stop on the book tour: London.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Engage the Austin community As with any initiative of this kind, community engagement is critical. Then when you are ready to reach out to the community, leverage your elected officials’ contacts, relationships, and events. Be as transparent as possible, using a community engagement portal or a public dashboard.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

The Lean Startup track was successful beyond my wildest imaginations (we'll have video up soon ). My personal highlight was watching newly-appointed United States CTO Todd Park receive a standing ovation from a crowd that is decidedly skeptical about government. And how many startups have I advised not to do that over the years?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 21, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. Some exciting news about this year’s Lean Startup Week (Oct. The flagship conference is directly tied to Eric Ries’s upcoming book, The Startup Way , and we’re hosting the event at two locations in downtown San Francisco (The Warfield and The Village).

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. On September 24 in the U.S. Here’s what they had to say.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2018

Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good is going to be an amazing resource for so many people from innovators to funders and everyone in between. It was incredibly energizing!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

of the American population is involved in the startup industry. Effective and efficient mentorship in these startup companies from when they first emerge is pertinent to overcoming the challenges these businesses will undoubtedly face in their infancy. remains a hub for startup development and success.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2017

Brad Fauteux, who today is an environmental consultant , has worked for years within the system as a leader of government agencies charged with protecting and promoting public lands in Canada. As an innovation economy, Canada is seen as a world leader and one of the best places to innovate, so there is certainly support there to lean on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in. Our goal—again, based on feedback—is to continue broadening the reach of Lean Startup and embracing the numerous ways people are using it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Today, I'm excited to share the latest round of startups that are being run by the Presidential Innovation Fellows program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Eric’s chat with Kent Beck was among our most entertaining webcasts ( video ; iTunes ; SoundCloud ).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

The focus on sustaining products leaves an opening for new startups with “good enough” products (and willing to initially take lower profits) to enter underserved or unserved markets. Building better startups. After retiring I began to think about the nature of startup innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. Worth a read. Teaching basic entrepreneurial appreciation.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

We’re going to see new entrepreneurs create more companies and products focused on solving issues such as systemic racism and police brutality, healthcare supply chain challenges, community connection, and more. It’s going to change the entire landscape of startups and entrepreneurialism. Thanks to Eckhard Ortwein, Lean Case ! #18-

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 20, 2016

Guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, editorial director of Lean Startup Co. Speaking at Lean Startup Week offers renowned and emerging industry leaders the opportunity to share their stories with our global community. If you’re interested in presenting at our flagship conference during Lean Startup Week Oct.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. With a career that’s spanned from the music industry to General Electric to the Olympics, Kirsten brings deep event programming experience to the Lean Startup team. What is your Lean Startup story?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 23, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Lean Startup Week has it all: keynote talks, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities and lively flashes of inspiration from our extended community in the form of Ignite Talks. 6, 2016 in San Francisco for Lean Startup Week.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

My team dedicated their time to creating a sense of community. Our membership network of thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs across hundreds of local chapters nationwide feel like they belong to an entire community now. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Neil John, One Computer Guy ! #16-

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2-

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada : Thanks.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A potential business opportunity for Sedibeng Breweries is a government-subsidized export operation, ideally to target markets in neighboring countries that are very similar to their target markets in Botswana so that Sedibeng’s strong marketing campaign can remain consistent. Access startup funds. Find startup funding.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on the venture community. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded.

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