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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

7:01) The importance of both customer and employee experience, brand building, and pivoting to anticipate the new normal that's coming. (9:33) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. I was fortunate to get some thoughtful input from the leadership of DarwinApps , Casual Corp , Coventure , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , and World Accelerator. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York.

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

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The theory is that because no one watches a remote employee’s every move, the extrinsic motivation for the employee lessens and that employee must be intrinsically motivated enough to want to accomplish their tasks. One group of employees was allowed to work from home, while the other group was required to work from the office.