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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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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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

Steve Blank

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. it is a process from start to deployment.

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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. Incubation.

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Lead and Disrupt

Steve Blank

The idea of exploitation versus exploration was central in my own work in building the lean methodology for start-ups. Today, lean is the de facto method for building new start-ups. To be truly successful at ambidexterity firms must master the new skills of ideation, incubation, and scaling. Companies that survive do both.

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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. Test if the Lean Innovation process actually accelerates technology adoption and an innovation ecosystem. Lean Innovation is a Process. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline.

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Steve Blank

In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Academics, consultants, incubators. Corporate VC needs to be part of an innovation investment portfolio with a mix of incubate, invest and acquire. Silicon Valley, Boston).