Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. That shift meant that they went from nearly zero women and people of color at the previous year''s conference to a conference featuring 40 percent women and 25 percent people of color.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

That is, until the reality set in that it was a government contract, filled with ridiculous reporting mechanisms, low reimbursement rates and administrative complexities that sucked the joy and profit out of the work. Early in my career, I was thrilled to win a five-year, quarter-million dollar contract. Why don't you test the demand first?"

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Ries Budgeting Magazine Conference 22

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons. Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time.

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