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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Conventional R&D can only address so many areas and it’s not exactly lean or fast. Mari Holds a B.A. in International Politics & Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. I would say from the introduction here that you represent a personality that’s different from many other investors that are out there. You take a more tacit approach.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Codeacademy.