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

Startup Lessons Learned

She shares: “We now use metrics like cost-per-learning and validation velocity to show progress since traditional things like ROI weren’t applicable.” The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ Dave is at the helm of an experimentation story in the making.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. And then small businesses start to use it. But this is a complete change from the way it has always worked.