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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

Maddie Davis, “ The Space Race ” University of Virginia – The Miller Center, 2021. Raymond said a focus for the Space Force is being lean and fast, innovative and unified. Martand Jha, “ This Is How the Space Race Changed the Great Power Rivalry Forever ” The National Interest, July 27, 2017. Space as a Domain.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. But then why did my son make his headshot for Google a kind of corporate power-pose—with his arms behind his head, as if leaning back at a giant desk?

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. But then why did my son make his headshot for Google a kind of corporate power-pose—with his arms behind his head, as if leaning back at a giant desk?

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Everyone else can register to come to both sessions for free, including the Lean Startup talk in the main conference. What does this mean for you?

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How To Trim Startup Operating Expenses Fast

YoungUpstarts

Whether you need to buy workers comp insurance in Arizona , Florida or Virginia, you need to research carefully to find the best rates, bearing in mind that requirements vary from state to state. If you want to keep your startup team lean and mean, utilizing outsourcing for certain tasks, such as accounting, might be a very smart move.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. What if all availability zones of Amazon in Virginia are disabled for a week? Of course, the latter is a better failure mode than the former, but both are sub-optimal, and the solution is predictability.