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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Six streaming locations

Startup Lessons Learned

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Panic at the Pivot – Aligning Incentives By Burning the Boats

Steve Blank

In 1519 Hernando Cortes landed in the Yucatan peninsula to conquer the Aztec Empire and bring their treasure back to Spain. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Tags: Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley. Burn The Boats. His small army arrived in 11 boats.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. In Spain I have large companies. They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. For all I know, it should be an ace developer so you can do those things. Edwin: I know.