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Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 20, 2010 Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup) The Wall Street Journal covers the Lean Startup movement in todays paper. I think this means weve officially diffused our first major misunderstanding (that lean means cheap and small ) - congratulations.

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DC Lean Startup Circle Event with 500 Startups

Campus Entrepreneurship

I am heading out to my first DC Lean Startup Circle event. I am looking forward to learning more about 500 Startups, how people use lean startup methods, and what kind of people make it out to this type of event. Perhaps I will run into a few of my students, as some have become very interested in accelerators and lean methods.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

I used to work for a company located in Arlington, VA that had the CIA as a client. The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

Catchy tune. Find a Cofounder Event Got a cool idea for a Bmore App? TowsonGlobal Tour Today (10/5/2010) - Who's going?

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Food Truck Rivalry on Campuses | WSJ.com | Campus as Market

Campus Entrepreneurship

GMU Arlington has a middle eastern food truck in front of Founders Hall on a regular basis while the main campus in Fairfax seem to offer just an old school hotdog cart — no problem with that — but its a far cry from today’s innovative food trucks. MIT, in Cambridge, Mass.,