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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy. ” Safari.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Private Equity sees infrastructure investing as uncorrelated diversification and has the additional upside of correcting any operational inefficiencies. The cost of capital nor commercial insurance pricing improvements are enough to excite the public.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Why do you love speaking to students at universities? For Meebo 1.3%

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy. ” Safari.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company.

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