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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld.

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How Successful Entrepreneurs Leveraged Their STEM Backgrounds

The Startup Magazine

Take Craigslist founder Craig Newmark , for example. He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. A good example is Google cofounder Larry Page. Make the Most of Applied Math.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. Australia has the highest usage and penetration of social media at an average of 7 hours a month. The internet is in every second pocket.

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

Savvy founders don’t just focus on iterating their own products – they look to other industries and niches for inspiration and opportunity as well. To find out which industries tech founders should look to next, I asked a panel of 13 founders the following: What is one industry (or niche) tech founders should be exploring now, and why?

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