“If something’s not working, we owe it to ourselves, and the taxpayers, to try something different.” The Problem How do we know we’re investing our very limited resources in solving the right problems? How do…
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines innovation as “The introduction of something new; a new idea, method, or device.” To delve a little deeper into the meaning of innovation, I found this definition of innovation from the Business…
Last year we shared a bit about our work to make the Lean Startup Conference intentionally welcoming and inclusive, including and especially to those who are typically underrepresented and under-served in this sector. This year…
Steven Boone is VP of Revenue at Atrium, a full-service corporate law firm that uses modern technology to provide startups with a fast, transparent, and price-predictable legal experience. In that role, he runs Sales, Marketing…
Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of…
About a year and a half ago, Sahil Lavingia moved from San Francisco to Provo, Utah—which he says is “the most unique thing” about him at the moment. He did so after his company Gumroad…
In a recent fireside chat, Eric Ries sat down with Viv Goldstein and Janice Semper to discuss FastWorks, the innovation platform they co-founded at GE. What followed was a compelling and insightful conversation about their…
Learn from Ignacio Julia Vilar, Chief Innovation Officer at ING Banking, during a fireside chat titled, “Beating Corporate Inertia to Win Big in Innovation.” Here are some key takeaways from the discussion. Interviewer Stephen Liguori…
The very qualities you can count on in large enterprises, such as stability and predictability, can have the unintended effect of holding back innovation, says Geeta Wilson, Vice President of Consumer Experience and Enterprise Transformation…
Janet Brunckhorst, a principal project manager at Carbon Five, and Courtney Hemphill, a partner and software developer also at Carbon Five discussed how to use a Lean approach to improve team performance. Both Courtney and…