Faster, Smarter Product Development – The Power of MVP Testing
What is MVP testing? A Google search on MVPs and how to test them yields A LOT of disinformation. In this post, we’re going to head back to first principles…
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What is MVP testing? A Google search on MVPs and how to test them yields A LOT of disinformation. In this post, we’re going to head back to first principles…
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Focus on Uncertainty, not on Horizons
Guest Post by Ben Schmuck, Lean Innovation Manager, Caterpillar Inc. Dear Fellow Corporate Innovators, We’ve all heard of the “Core, Adjacent, Transformational” or “Three Horizons” innovation framework. Core innovation…
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3 Days of Inspiration and Learning: A Recap of LSCo’s Enterprise Summit
After three days of keynotes, workshops and networking, we caught up with a few attendees of the first Lean Startup Co. Virtual Summit: Enterprise Edition to see what stuck. They…
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Observing Human Behavior To Create Value
Tyrome “Ty” Smith at Parsons Corp. Tyrome “Ty” Smith, has spent over 25 years consulting and leading executives and their teams by helping them understand human and organizational dynamics. Currently, he…
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Practicing Genuine Empathy To Understand Customer Needs
Sandeep Mylavarapu of Caterpillar Inc. Sandeep Mylavarapu is a mechanical engineer and a human-centered design practitioner. He’s spent more than a decade at the proving grounds, developing various construction and mining…
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The Key To Focusing on the Problem Is Having an Open Perspective
Innovator and futurist Elijah Tuuri Elijah Tuuri is an internationally recognized innovator and futurist whose projects have been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. He’s taken part in…
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Letting Go of Established Behaviors To Discover Something New
Ieasha Taitano Ieasha Taitano is an executive leader, practitioner, and facilitator who builds shared service practices in innovation, design thinking, and product management. She has led transformations at companies like…
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Approaching Life With a Lean Startup Mindset
Ben Hafele of Lean Startup Co. Ben Hafele is a senior faculty member at Lean Startup Co, where he leads training, coaching, and consulting engagements with startups, large corporations, and…
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How an Innovation Framework Helps a Food Giant Explore New Opportunities
Nancy Yaklich of Cargill Nancy Yaklich is a digital innovation coach at Cargill. She launched the EDGE Program, Cargill’s digital business accelerator based on Lean Startup. She coaches founders, startup…
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How a New Way of Working Took Hold at Universal Robots
Rob Hernandez of Universal Robots Rob Hernandez is a practiced product developer and strategist in the automation space. Together with The Lean Startup Co., he has started UR LABS, a…
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How In-Depth Customer Interviews Drive Innovation and Culture at Caterpillar
Ben Schmuck of Caterpillar Ben Schmuck is a lean innovation manager at Caterpillar, where he accelerates an eclectic portfolio of early-stage innovation projects focused on revenue growth. Ben has coached…
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Category: Webinars
Building A Startup For Long-Term Success
Learn the key to a successful digital transformation, Eric’s most common advice for founders, and tips for jump-starting innovation in legacy environments in this lively podcast featuring Eric Ries and…
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Advice from an Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Investor and Advisor
We recently hosted a conversation between Fiifi Founder & CEO, Theron McCollough, and Lean Startup Co. Advisor, Chris Guest, focused on Theron’s experiences working in the world of startups and…
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An Honest Account Of An Entrepreneur’s Pivot
We recently hosted a conversation between Ryan Caldbeck, Founder & CEO at CircleUp, and Chris Guest, Lean Startup Co. Advisor, focused on what it’s like as a CEO to take…
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How Parenthood Sparked a Business
We recently hosted a conversation between Blueland co-founder and CEO Sarah Paiji Yoo and our newest moderator Chris Guest. They discuss how becoming a mom led Sarah to create a…
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3 Mental Models To Reduce Uncertainty and Increase Winning
Chris Cochella We had a conversation with Chris Cochella, serial entrepreneur and founder of Brackitz, an award-winning children’s STEM education building system. He shared with us three mental models intended to reduce uncertainty in highly uncertain environments. Lean…
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Helping Business Owners Find Loans: The Startup Story Of Lendio
Brock Blake stumbled into the world of entrepreneurship when he was still attending college at BYU. He was studying finance and won an entrepreneurship competition that awarded him $50,000 to…
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Using Lean To Decrease Youth Unemployment In South Africa And Beyond
South Africa has a big problem on its hands. Even though they make up less than 1% of the world’s population, they have one of the highest youth unemployment rates…
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The Realities Facing Female Founders
We recently hosted the second episode of a six-part podcast series we’re doing with Silicon Valley Bank. In episode two, Lean Startup Co. Chief of Staff CJ Legare spoke with…
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Innovating the Writing Process: How Change Is Coming to the Publishing World
There are few industries as steeped in traditional, old-school practices as publishing. Many of the major publishing houses have been around for tens (if not hundreds) of years and still…
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Bringing Biotech to the Masses
Discovering a Problem by Being a Beginner When Julie Legault was a masters student at the MIT Media Lab, she was encouraged to try new things and to do things…
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