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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. We all know these people, most often working at large corporates or even the government.

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New Power: An Interview with Henry Timms

Startup Lessons Learned

Their research and conversations took place all around the world and included everyone from the heads of intelligence agencies in Washington to frontline health workers in the Netherlands. In fact, you can think about the Lean Startup movement itself as an amazingly effective exercise in new power. They aren’t waiting for permission.

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Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

Steve Blank

As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”. Maybe the public can be better served by the government just subsidizing battery research. over a national platform.