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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. A patent is a government granted monopoly to prevent others from making, using or selling your invention – even if the other parties infringement was innocent or accidental. Copyright.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (14:54): So, so you probably occasionally drive by some very large buildings that are at about 10% capacity, you know, because employees are distributed now or not coming back to the office ever again. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely. Now we're more like a distributed innovation hub.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). The era of the patriarch is nearing an end. What’s Next in 2012….

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Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer

Ben's Blog

20 years ago, the technology adoption curve generally conformed to the following order: Government —specifically Defense and Intelligence organizations. In the old days (before the Internet), no technology products were free, because distribution costs made it impossible to offer anything without some commitment from the end customer.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. Less is more. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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22 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on The Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

To build an app, you can purchase a cheap Chromebook, connect to an incredibly powerful array of supercomputers for next to no cost on AWS, and you can distribute your minimally viable product across large social networks like Linkedin and Facebook with just a key stroke. 14- Leveraging technology to solve problems.