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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City. Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Demos have become our design reviews.”

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

I had a better one when I came back from New York. I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. This was just one of the 14 WeWork co-working spaces in New York City – there are over 100 co-working spaces in New York.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running. How does the average Lean Startup Meetup get event space at a school? It was easy peasy.

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Software Inventory

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. There are modern algorithms to optimize how much buffer you need at every point (read up on Toyota’s lean production system and the Theory of Constraints to get started). The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. That code is inventory.

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The Desert Less Traveled

YoungUpstarts

That means picking up the phones and talking to customers, learning to code, or even taking out the trash. I’ve done everything from designing our website in Photoshop to coding our conversion funnels in html/css. At BeenVerified , our development and coding mantra is to always “Do Less!”,

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. We did due diligence on one another through resumes, reference checks, technical interviews, and spending time together (basically reviewing the items offered in the FounderDating application). New York City.