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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

Science and National Industrial Policy as we face the realities of China and global competition. Office of Scientific Research and Development – Scientists Against Time. The material to make the bombs – Plutonium and Uranium 235 – were made by civilian contractors at Hanford Washington and Oak Ridge Tennessee.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.] We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. If a feature worked, wed keep it.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup movement is already global ( see the map ). Thats as it should be, as the new era of entrepreneurship that is now dawning is intrinsically global. Ideas, products, and capital flow easily across borders. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Together, I believe we are changing the face of entrepreneurship. If thats true, its primarily due to your hard work, building companies and testing new ideas. We all owe you. We all owe you.