Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 7, 2016
It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups. Kelly, your Twitter handle asks, "Can we please disrupt the conversation about local government?"
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. Then the government says ‘hey, great news! Looking at an independent studies evaluation of government funded retraining programs shows that their efficacy rate tends to be between 0 and 15%.
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Board Effect
JUNE 14, 2023
Good governance for nonprofits is hard. This article outlines 5 key trends impacting governance for nonprofits and shares key questions that boards need to be asking, along with suggestions for strategies to start tackling them. Suggested next steps: Encourage the board to have tough conversations. There’s a lot to worry about.
Board Effect
JULY 5, 2021
With philanthropic giving at an all-time high, it’s generating a new sense of freedom for nonprofits, allowing them to reimagine governance like never before. Nonprofits: Ready, Set, Reimagine Governance. Enhancing partnerships between your nonprofit and the government and corporate sectors where all partners have equal footing.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Wired did that conversion in a “mere” 18 months. It never works like that. Reddit took 18 months to get the “number of likes” to work at scale. StackOverflow took 4 years to get everything converted to HTTPS. Everything is hard at scale. What are the patterns in those stories?
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. No, the conversation was about to get more interesting. Over the last two months the U.S. This week we saw the results.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 6, 2020
There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning. So my only goal is to give you insights into the conversations we’ve been having in case you don’t have the same access or advice.
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