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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

Then we saw the great alignment between the Customer Development Model and the Agile software development methodologies so we decided to create the course IIC3515 “Workshop of Entrepreneurship with Software” that applies both models to develop real software products with customers from the startup ideas of the students.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Process helps ensure that you can deliver solutions that scale without breaking other parts of the organization. Process Versus Product.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted to give you a rundown of what’s in store, along with particular insight into two of the workshops we’re most excited to have lined up for Gold and VIP attendee s—one session with Jez Humble on implementing continuous delivery and one with Alistair Croll on Lean analytics for corporate entrepreneurs.

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. It also adds the customer empathy piece that was missing for me from agile or Lean methods. This interview is part of a “Future of….” What were the biggest stumbling blocks?

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

And the effort was reflected by the 140 speakers and mentors who took the stage and ran workshops over the course of the seven-day conference. The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices.

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Globalization

YoungUpstarts

Newcomers have agility, speed to market, and – often – innovation on their side. At the same time, small agile micro global entrepreneurs bite away at the other end as digital platforms provide rapid low-cost access into completely new. Today, even the smallest firms can compete with the largest multinationals. And the digital wrapper.

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