In the 20th century, corporate skunk works were used to develop disruptive innovation separate from the rest of the company. They Read More
Why corporate skunk works need to die
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Born global or die local
Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country Read More
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The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better
Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it. —— The Lean Startup process builds new Read More
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Watching My Students Grow
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”Galileo Galilei One of Read More
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Why founders should know how to code
“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”Book of Five Rings A startup Read More
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Beyond the lemonade stand
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we Read More
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Time for Founders School
Having a film crew in your living room for two days is something you want to put on Read More
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Bigger in Bend
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Read More
In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder, Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate Read More
In startup-land, people seem to equate raising money with having a sound business that’s ready to scale. Read More
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How Kevin O’Connor and FindTheBest Got Lean
When we started E.piphany there was an equally scrappy startup calledDoubleClick (later acquired by Google for $3.1 billon). Other the Read More
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When Hell Froze Over-in The Harvard Business Review
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Groucho Marx In my 21 Read More
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How Sports Infects Your Brain
How Sports Infect Your Brain by Nir Eyal in Users Note: I co-authored this post with Andrew Martin and David Ngo. It originally Read More
(This is part of a continuing series on what it looks like inside an accelerator). Greenstart is an Read More
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The role of metrics in Web design
At Eric Ries’ Startup Lessons Learned event, held last Friday, one panel came together to discuss how startups Read More