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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. They are nerds. Good Post.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor.

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Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. Steve Blank has asked me to co-teach his MBA entrepreneurship class at Berkeley Haas, starting January 19, and to revamp the curriculum to make it a full introduction to the lean startup. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Lessons Learned

Without lobbyists or PACs, were getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act - this year - to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

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A Different Kind of Entrepreneurship Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic/WordPress, will talk about the way his company experiments constantly—even though his teams are fully distributed, with nearly everyone working from home.

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.