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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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Your Company Can Either Lead Sustainability Efforts Or Get Out Of The Way

YoungUpstarts

The pursuit of sustainable business practices makes sense because consumers ask for them and are more willing to do business with green companies. If your community has robust job growth and economic development, then you’ll have more potential customers to serve. What’s good for the Earth ends up being good for your bottom line.

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The 4 Hottest Industries To Start a Business in For 2020

Up and Running

Create a lean business plan . GoodRx , a telemedicine platform, for example, developed their business model after recognizing the burden high prescription drug costs place on individuals. Green products and services. Why businesses related to green products are trending. How to start a green business .

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Here are the first five.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. In designing GUI interfaces for people coming from the green-screen world we built applications that would be great for desktop publishing, not customer service reps. Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. One last note on reporting.