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How to Find Your First Customers

Tim Kastelle

Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series We interviewed the plant manager and he said that they didn’t have any problems with scale, but we know that they do! That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. We need to understand the needs of all of these people.

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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. Where most businesses fail is in taking the invention to market or mitigating market risk.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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How Schibsted Media Group Used Empathy and Evidence to Validate New Ideas

Moves the Needle

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Executives Meet to Discuss the ROI of Innovation

Moves the Needle

This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. The teams assigned to that metric are not regulated in any sense on HOW they achieve that metric. Easier said than done. Small startups can get away with it.

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5 Excuses of Companies that Don’t Innovate (And How to Overcome Them)

Moves the Needle

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. Where most businesses fail is in taking invention to market or mitigating market risk.

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The Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership. Finance & Accounting. Thank you, Finance. Thank you, Entrepreneurialism.