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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

Not only is he bringing Lean Startup methodology into his medical practice, but he most recently helped launch Health For America. How has lean startup methodology influenced your role? Lean Startup was critical in creating our program. My talk really focuses on demystifying health care and opening it up to the Lean community.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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What is Lean about the Lean Startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 16, 2009 What is Lean about the Lean Startup? The first step in a lean transformation is learning to tell the difference between value-added activities and waste. I was giving my first-ever webcast on the lean startup. This value is evident in Lean Startups.

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

8: Your Team's DC, DR, DA effort allocation is 15%-20%-65%. #7: They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. Pick hard metrics to designate as your key performance indicators.

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From Exit to Cocoa Bean: How The Plaxo Founders Started Dandelion Chocolate

Hunter Walker

Q: How did your technology background help shape the way you approached DC? For one, having a mindset of keeping things lean — and solving the problems you actually have — let us take things one step at a time. But we knew about A/B testing and optimizing metrics, and search spaces and fitness functions.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Thanks for writing this article.