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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

I went to excellent public schools (so-called science magnets) that had computer classes, which meant they had networked computers that I could use. If we network them together, theyll answer each others questions and collaborate on projects we can hardly imagine. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. But I was also very lucky.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs. Its actually part of a lean startup story. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" When I try to unpack what people mean by the question, heres my best take on what they are asking: "Look, Steve Jobs doesnt go out and ask customers what they want. He tells customers what they want, and he gets it right.

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Twitter Link Roundup #170 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

through the Lean Launchpad class. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Only if you’re doing it with the intention to learn about the market and customers. How did you find your passion? A few nuggets.