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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Then there’s the war in the Ukraine, rising energy prices, inflation, climate change, pandemic and who knows what other curve balls will be thrown our way.

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Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It

Steve Blank

Fear of Failure/Risk Aversion – Large organizations are built around repeatable and scalable processes that are designed to be “fail safe.” When will disruption happen that will make our core business or operating concepts/force design obsolete? In the military it’s demos but no funding for deployments at scale.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany. Support agile working practices. The fast-paced business world favors small, nimble teams that support agile decision-making.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems. They can crowd-source designs, find components through eBay, fund through PayPal, train using virtual worlds and refine tactics, techniques and procedures using massive on-line gaming. North Korea. Lessons Learned.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

From Strategy to Development Whether you are out-sourcing or developing in-house there are two ways to build a system: Give your developers a rough idea of what to build and keep iterating the design as they build it; Give your developers detailed documentation of what to build.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? I think there are more enterpreneurs per capita here than anywhere else!