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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

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Is Bias Fixable?

Harvard Business Review

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. Diversity Gender Leadership' If underrepresented groups have a reasonable expectation of not being selected, it''s perfectly reasonable that they don''t apply, don''t try.

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