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. Winner will be selected by community vote. Details here.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In The platform is currently in ten states and serving hundreds of thousands of people. As Irma told me, "We don't have to wait for serendipity.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Key Takeaways: Phil Mershon emphasizes the importance of understanding the customer journey, surprising and delighting attendees with unexpected elements, and transforming event audiences into a supportive community. 07:52] How can you serve both audience and community ? [09:45] How do you view audience versus community?

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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. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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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. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. We try our best to give back to our community and country and always wonder – is it enough?

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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. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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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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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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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Botanical Bounty needs to establish its reputation as a highly-efficient, high-potency medicinal herb grower, and one effective and inexpensive way to do that would be to lean on loyal customer testimonials in the company’s marketing strategy. Customer testimonials. Sales channel relationships. Relationships with distributors.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

A company had trademarked our brand name under our product category with United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To recover from making less profit, we leaned out the processes and verified new clients for profitability for taking on board. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. How have you rebounded?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. In many instances, whether that’s starting a business, or working on a business, or caring for a loved one, or volunteering in the community, or something artistic and creative.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. The state of the home health care industry around the world: .

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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. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. Worth a read. Innovation and entrepreneurship will become the liberal arts of the 21st century.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. If you asked 100 people to describe a United States Marine , they would probably use words such as “Warrior,” “Fierce,” “Patriot,” “Honorable,” and “Tough.” Below are the top 5 factors we found are necessary to successfully innovate.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. If you asked 100 people to describe a United States Marine , they would probably use words such as “Warrior,” “Fierce,” “Patriot,” “Honorable,” and “Tough.” Below are the top 5 factors we found are necessary to successfully innovate.

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JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. Serendipity.

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JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. And the venture capital community became comfortable in funding them. Starting this Thursday, scientists and engineers across the United States will once again set the rules.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

By providing networking platforms that connect businesses with the technology sector and different government agencies, programs can be developed that enable entrepreneurs to develop the skills necessary to learn from business leaders, build a supportive community, and excel in their endeavors. This is not an issue isolated to Abu Dhabi.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Some are major contributors to their startup communities. As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And even though at least in the United States we never quite made it to the dance, tens of millions of people read them, and it shaped their understanding. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. Eric Ries : That's right.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Luckily, I’ve done the research for you and picked out the top small business-friendly cities in the United States. Cities with engaging, information-packed sites lean more toward being small business-friendly than those with poorly built, spammy-looking websites. Note: These are selections based on my personal opinion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. So I think one of those patients went to ER and then got tested by the CDC at a community hospital, and was considered one of them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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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. Each team of innovators is supported by a broader community of interested citizens throughout the country.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. Physical activity recommendations gradually guide our members from simple walking, on to vigorous strength and cardiovascular training that helps replace excess fat with lean muscle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. Over 5000 people in 87 locations will be joining up to use their talents to make their communities a better place.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. I go to places in the community to speak about mental health treatment services where most other treatment providers would hardly ever consider.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. Eric Ries : First ever?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Once I graduated from the naval academy in the United States Navy. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense.

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