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Lean startup, lean company

Lead on Purpose

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. The Lean Startup delivers a lot of great insight for leadership and product management. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU. “The

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. At times it drove the materials manager crazy.”

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand

Harvard Business Review

Some eager entrepreneurs think their new product is so brilliant and so unlike anything else out there, that they just need to make it available and people will start clamoring over it. It may be tempting to skip brand development in the rush to get a new product to market. what we believe in – our defining values.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. So instead, I am picking a few companies with less well known stories that may resonate with today's entrepreneurs.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. In my management 3.0 model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. That''s not right. Create mechanisms to enable experiments.

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