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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

We had two prospective clients this past week where their overall site design was good enough that they didn’t need a full redesign. You may have a great product or service and great design on your existing site, but you know you could be doing better. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.”. –

Design 100
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Presentation Format.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Talent: Each team member needs to have talent – they all need to own their abilities and focus on their assets.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. .” PB: How has your Lean LaunchPad course, ENGR 245, evolved?

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

But all of those meals that we have been providing for the last 14 years, qualify for the federal subsidy programs that are designed to increase food security for kids and families in low income areas. We had just started expanding into some senior meal programs. Kristin Groos Richmond : We met in Business School at UC Berkeley.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. So what do you do if you go to your local claim website and the site was designed to handle 10,000 claims over the past three years.