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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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6 Sources Of Purpose To Drive Business Success Today

Startup Professionals Musings

For Logan Green of Lyft, his international travel purpose helped inspire him to the creation and growth of an industry-altering business. If your business is health-technology related, I urge you to share this with your team, and with customers, and ask for their help, versus leaning on profitability, price, and process.

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The 4 Hottest Industries To Start a Business in For 2020

Up and Running

To help with this, we’ve compiled a list of the top 4 industries that show the most promise for startups in 2020. As transportation becomes more intertwined with technology, there is a shift away from traditional services and towards startups with radical ideas. . Why tech startups are (still) trending. Transportation.

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Effective Cost-Saving Rules for Manufacturers

The Startup Magazine

Here are a few cost-saving rules all manufacturers need to follow today: Adopt lean manufacturing. Lean Startup Feedback Loop from lean.st. The post Effective Cost-Saving Rules for Manufacturers appeared first on The Startup Magazine. With all that in mind, we can see how important it is to reduce costs to stay afloat.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? But I dont think most startups really have a need for someone to do that on a full time basis. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." I dont think so.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. In building the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we’ve tried to strike a balance. To give you a sense of these practitioners, we asked some our new speakers to talk about how they use Lean Startup methods.

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Speed in Sales at Startups

Austin Startup

The Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy The defining characteristic of the Silicon Valley startup is speed. Startups must build speed into their culture. I moved back into working with Seed, Series A/B, startups- and it took me a couple of months to re-adjust. Another startup lesson is that timelines are arbitrary.

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