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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, Eric Ries’s Lean Startup is mandatory reading for new hires prior to their first day. He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico. They test selling an MVP first to their colleagues, and they have to pivot if their colleagues do not pay for it.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

(We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”. Did we just hear this right? Someone is advertising electronics jobs on the radio?

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

(We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”. Did we just hear this right? Someone is advertising electronics jobs on the radio?

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

So they came onto a lot of people's radars around the hurricane in Puerto Rico. They hire local chefs, but they may take over a stadium kitchen. They dropped in there. And usually, their model is to bring in some of their own team and chefs.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Continuous innovation was here to stay and only founders – not hired execs – could play and win.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

One last thing on this point, when President Obama hired me to be the Ebola Response Coordinator, I obviously knew very little about diseases and response and these kinds of things. Bricks-and-mortar retail are going down, not up. Because consumers don't feel safe. I think that's the economic flaw in the president's thinking.