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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

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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What I Noticed On Social Media During the 2017 Hurricane Season

Austin Startup

Irma and Maria together practically wiped out the entire island of Puerto Rico. Watched all kinds of hurricane Harvey Snaps #realfootage #nomedia  —  @jennihawk Brands are not responding to customer questions in a timely manner, or at all Southwest Airlines is easily one of my favorite brands.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features.

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