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White Gold: A Story of Persistence

RapidStart Leadership

Hoping to take advantage of this opportunity, in 1866 Samuel Platt organized the Goderich Petroleum Company in Ontario, Canada, secured the backing of local investors, and started drilling on the north bank of the Maitland River. Eric Ries Click To Tweet. Oil had recently been found not far away on Black Creek.

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Stop Believing That You Have to Be Perfect

Harvard Business Review

The goal, says Eric Ries of The Lean Startup fame, is to create a minimum viable product that you’ll fully expect to iterate over time. But innovation of any sort entails risk and trying new things – and that mandates failure. A 100% success rate implies you’re not doing anything new at all.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Remember, Trian only owns about 1.5% of the GE and P&G shares.)

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. Renee Comet/Getty Images. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

You’re probably familiar with the “minimum viable product” of Eric Ries’ Lean Start-Up fame; but here I’m talking about the acronymically identical “minimum viable pilot.” ” A fintech start-up enjoyed greater success piloting a security offering with a global bank. ” Insight Center.

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