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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

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. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- AltBird Robotics is a technology start-up that offers robotic and drone services to businesses and government agencies. It was launched in 2014, and its idea was that sustainability shouldn’t only be limited to wealthy or middle to upper-class communities. 21- AMP Robotics.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. The offset strategy was smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth using silicon chips, electronics and computers that only the U.S. command, control, computers, and communications technologies.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Teten: How do corporate VCs interact with the broader VC community? .

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup. They spend the year working with the doctors and the life sciences venture community to design devices and other solutions to those problems and needs. fed labs, HHS).

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