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How Startups Benefit From Experimentation

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the lean startup methodology popularized by Eric Ries has brought into the popular lexicon the pivot, by which startups change tack after experience from the market encourages a new direction to be taken in some way. They examined over 35,000 tech startups that were founded between 2008 and 2013.

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Is Bias Fixable?

Harvard Business Review

As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. 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. And you do not see others.

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