The Lean Startup | Methodology “Startup success can be engineered by following the process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”- Eric Ries The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and get a desired product to customers' hands faster. The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup-how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere-and grow a business with maximum acceleration. It is a principled approach to new product development. Too many startups begin with an idea for a product that they think people want. “The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup-how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere-and grow a business with maximum acceleration.” + The Lean Startup Process - Diagram “Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.” + Continuous Innovation Eliminate Uncertainty Work Smarter not Harder Develop An MVP + Learn When It Is Time To Pivot Principles
Hours and Directions for The City Quilter in New York City The City Quilter is located at 133 West 25th Street, which is between 6th (also called Avenue of the Americas) and 7th Avenues. Subway: Take any subway that leaves you off at 23rd Street. We are within 5 minutes walking distance of these lines: 1, C, E, F, R. Bus: The Number M20 runs from midtown Manhattan, down 7th Avenue. Train: Penn Station is at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue for the Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit, and Amtrak. Parking: Commercial parking garages are located nearby. Coursera UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version). See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Here is another video Nick created for this class.
Stanford Seminar - Olivia Fox Cabane on Charisma Seu sucesso é baseado em Métricas de Vaidade? | Bizstart Blog No desenvolvimento de uma startup, um dos momentos mais difíceis (e importantes) é a hora de medir suas ações. A empresa está tendo sucesso nas suas práticas? Fundamental para responder essa pergunta e extrair o melhor dos experimentos, as métricas são as melhores amigas do empreendedor em muitas situações. Porém, devemos atentar ao que Eric Ries, em “A Startup Enxuta”, chama de Métricas de Vaidade. As Métricas de Vaidade são dados usados para medir o desempenho da empresa, mas que tem pouca utilidade real e levam o empreendedor a tirar conclusões precipitadas – ou mesmo nenhuma conclusão. Vamos trazer o próprio exemplo do livro que retrata bem o perigo das Métricas de Vaidade. Esse tipo métrica nos leva a um comportamento natural: quando os números são positivos, associamos às nossas ações; quando são negativos, a falha vem do trabalho de outros. É por isso que devemos ter em mente os 3 A’s das boas métricas: Acionável, Acessível e Auditável. Acionável Acessível Auditável
Rapunzel - Workshop - NanC Meinhardt Studio Workshop Rapunzel Open to all skill levels “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair…or at least your beads!” Supplies Needed: My supply list is to be considered as a list of suggestions rather than a list of "must haves". 20 grams each of three colors of size 11 seed beads. Embellishment bead suggestions: ½ strand each of two colors of fresh water pearls, ½ strand of center drilled keshi pearls, 3mm and 4mm crystals or firepolish, a couple of 5mm crystals or firepolish, a "smattering" of colors of size 8 seed beads and/or size 10 triangles. IndieGoGo's Co-Founder Wants Kids to Launch 10 Startups in 10 Years Slava Rubin, co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, has an ambitious plan to plant the seeds of entrepreneurship in the minds of students: He wants them to launch a new startup every year for ten years in middle school through college. "The best way for students to become entrepreneurs is through practice and experience," writes Rubin in his contribution to the #FixYoungAmerica book, to be published in May. "LeBron James became a basketball star because he practiced and played basketball regularly from an early age, not just because he watched Michael Jordan on television." Rubin believes entrepreneurship deserves a place in classrooms nationwide, right alongside calculus and biology. Few schools, says Rubin, teach students that they can become successful entrepreneurs and business owners, so the career field doesn't appear on students' radars the way that "doctor" or "lawyer" might. Rubin's curriculum is divided into four parts, one for each semester of the school year.
Agile, Lean « System Agility What We Did at The ALE2011 Retrospective Olaf and I were chatting on the first morning of the first ever ALE conference when he suggested I facilitate the retrospective at the end of the conference. Facilitating a session with 200+ very smart and very vocal people, many of whom are expert retrospective facilitators, and all of whom would have high expectations, was a pretty scary thought. But also a great opportunity to have some fun and do something that would be an experience I would not forget. Preparation In Open Space sessions, hallway discussions, the bar and other forums, I tried to talk with as many people as possible about how they felt about the ALE Network and what comes next. Exercises Opening Activities Rain Dance I wanted to open with something that would be memorable, a little unusual and also fun. The idea is to simulate the sound of a thunderstorm, creating the sounds of rain that build up to a thunderstorm, and then calms down again as the storm passes. Project History
Barbaraanne's Hair Comb Blog | A Community of Scholars Screw University, Course Hero Curates YouTube Into Free Business and Coding Classes You can learn just about anything from YouTube…if you’re willing to dig through millions of videos. Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections of the best educational YouTube videos and other content. The newly launched courses section of the eduTech startup’s site now has classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and programming in a variety of languages. Meanwhile, Course Hero offers crowdsourced study guides, tutoring, and flashcards. Khan Academy is great, but isn’t as scalable since it create the content itself. So here’s how you get schooled. Rather than put you at the mercy of long-winded professors, Course Hero trims videos and articles down to their most important teachings. Course Hero’s CEO and co-founder Andrew Grauer tells me he wanted to find out “what would the Internet’s version of university look like?” Investors see that too. The startup has an innovative business model.
How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Get started with a detailed guide to three key lean startup techniques: continuous deployment, rapid split-testing, and root cause analysis (five why's). This webcast will cover the theory of how lean startups work, implementation details, and case studies. Participants will come away with a specific plan of action for how to apply these techniques to their product, company, or startup. The core audience for this presentation is venture-backed or angel-funded startups in the software, IT, web 2.0, or ecommerce space. About Eric Ries Eric Ries is the author of the blog Lessons Learned.
James Petras -The Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State – 2012, 7p. Artigo de James Petras (em inglês, 7 paginas) sobre a degradação da democracia americana nas últimas décadas. Uma síntese de rara felicidade. Assunto escorregadio em termos ideológicos, mas vital para o nosso futuro. A liberalização financeira e redução dos impostos dos ricos aumentaram a desigualdade e fragilizaram as finanças do Estado. Ao mesmo tempo intensificaram-se guerras em várias frentes e expandiram-se radicalmente os gastos militares (intervenção e manutenção). Download