Video on Lean Startup Principles, Part 1 of 2

Great Video on the Lean startup principles from an interview by Scobleizer, April 01, 2010 (Sponsored by Rackspace, we help entrepreneurs build great Internet businesses): Eric Ries is changing how software companies form companies, build teams, and ship software that rocks customers’ lives. He writes http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ and has popularized the term "lean startups." Are you Read More …

Key Marketing Concepts from Korean War

From Wikpedia: Boyd’s key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA Loop, the process by which an entity (either an individual or an organization) reacts to an event. According to this idea, the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than one’s Read More …

Alliances and Tools in Innovation

In part 3 of this 3 part podcast Mike Dalton the founder of Guided Innovation Group, discussed Alliances and tools used in Innovation. I think you might be surprised with some of the answers. In Mikes recent book, Simplifying Innovation: Doubling speed to market and new product profits – with your existing resourceshe discussed the Read More …

put things off until the last responsible minute – Personal Kanban

One of the Personal Kanban tips that Jim Benson gave us in the Business901 Podcast: We basically create different projects, and those projects, aren’t atomized until the last possible minute. So we keep things in an aggregated form as long as we possibly can, which is a fancy way of saying that we procrastinate. But Read More …

Customer Value Lens

In part 2 of this 3 part podcast Mike Dalton the founder of Guided Innovation Group, discussed The Customer Value Lens. Mike says, “That means the first thing you have to do is be out in the marketplace, be out with customers, potential customers or new markets and be looking for the problems, the things Read More …

Case Study using Lean Startup Techniques

The video is far from perfect, some of the questions you will not even be able to hear.  However, when we are talking about new Lean Startup theory with a mix of Product Innovation and Product Launches this is as good of a case study I have found for public viewing. Lean Startup case study Read More …