Turning Large Corporations Containerships Into Nimble Startup Speedboats | Janet Bumpas
Large organizations are often like containerships—big, reliable, and efficient, but they can’t turn quickly. They often see startups as fast speedboats—responsive and nimble operations. Janet Bumpas i...
1 Sep 201714min
Using Product Design Sprints To Strengthen Your Product/Market Fit | Laurie Young
Both Product Design Sprints and Lean techniques allow teams to move toward and iterate upon ideas quickly, helping companies build better products faster. Although the two processes are complementary,...
1 Sep 20175min
GE's FastWorks Journey Engaging In A Cultural Transformation | Sinead Clarkin & Heather McGough
GE's adaptation of the Lean Startup program, called FastWorks, has been well documented thus far. But what are the specifics of the ongoing journey of the FastWorks mindset and methodology, as it make...
1 Sep 201725min
From Sketches To Shareholders: How Starting Lean Helped Me Hack The World | Laurence Kemball-Cook
Starting a new business is hard enough, but creating a new technology has unique challenges. From how to deploy early funding, to hiring from a community that you trust, Laurence Kemball-Cook, founder...
1 Sep 201716min
Turning The Ship: Bringing Faster Leaner Technology To Government | Dominic Berg
The NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications is undergoing a major shift, using new technologies and unconventional approaches to better serve City partners and the millions of Ne...
1 Sep 201716min
Turning The Ship: Bringing Faster Leaner Technology To Government | Josh Robin and Dominic Berg
The NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications is undergoing a major shift, using new technologies and unconventional approaches to better serve City partners and the millions of Ne...
1 Sep 201716min
UNICEF Venture Fund And The Financing Of Equity | Christopher Fabian
UNICEF's Venture Fund is the first financial vehicle of its kind in the United Nations—allowing for $50-100K investments in open source technology companies in the countries where UNICEF works. Chris ...
1 Sep 201718min
Building And Scaling Smaller Startups Within Etsy | Emily Smith & Rachana Kumar
Founded in 2005, Etsy has grown into a public company with over 1,000 employees. It's no longer a startup (in the traditional definition), but in many ways, Etsy still thinks and builds like one. This...
1 Sep 201717min
