Today, I handed in my master thesis about the topic “Facilitating Opportunity Development: Increasing Understanding of the Lean Startup Approach in Early Stage Entrepreneurship”. That feels really good. Three months of very hard work besides my fulltime job. Not an easy task. I am glad I could manage it and would like to thank anybody […]

Ever wondered about how the perfect team should look like? A recent article posted in the YFS (Young, Fabulous, Self-employed) magazine, mentions three different key players: The business person The developer The designer Read the whole article here: http://yfsentrepreneur.com/2011/04/08/how-to-create-the-perfect-startup-team/.

On the one hand it looks quite nice and appears quite handy, but on the other hand it requires a bit more value to keep you coming back continuously: http://thestartuptoolkit.com

After 1,5 weeks of interviewing – last interview is scheduled for today – I am right in the process of tweaking and tuning my research question. It is still challenging, even after weeks of work and iterative studies of subject matter related books and web articles. Once I have mastered this extreme challenge, I hope […]

The Top 30 of the richest internet entrepreneurs according to net worth: http://www.incomediary.com/30-richest-internet-entrepreneurs/.

This interesting question is currently discussed in the following HBR blog: http://bit.ly/i94S6k. The key thoughts in Ron Ashkenas view are summarized below: Set up a venture group that can fund internal (and external) entrepreneurs who want to start businesses that are related to or adjacent to your core. Obviously, criteria need to be established about types […]

I am currently in search of typical and critical new venture team performance indicators / success factors. Ideally in the area of high-tech entrepreneurship. Just in case you are aware of another source for this kind of information / analysis, please leave a comment. My current academic research revealed the folloing meta-factors:   Entrepreneurial Team: […]

Please share your Lean Startup Machine Boston experience as part of The Lean Startup Research Project and benefit from a benchmark summary with other participants at http://bit.ly/hXFh5a.

I just stumbled across the following blog post in the context of the last hackathon-style LSM Boston event: Where are the lady geeks? A quite enteratining 6-month investigation, undercover observational study of the geek species in their natural habitat – hackathons ;-). Check out the “categorization of geeks based on some key distinctive traits that […]

What is the Lean Startup research project about and why should I care?  The purpose of this project is to better understand your current thinking of the Lean Startup approach. We combine this powerful LSM event with a brand new research initiative which feeds into a larger research project where you could add tremendous value to the practitioner and […]