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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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In Santa Fe We Wish We Had The Boulder Problems!

Feld Thoughts

To give you some background, I moved to Santa Fe, NM from the East Coast in 1995 to start a company with my older brother. Santa Fe’s anemic economy is due in large part because Santa Fe has an older population made up primarily of retirees in addition to federal, state and local government workers and service-based workers.

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

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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Tools and Resources to Help You Write Your Business Plan

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Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . How to manage and grow a business. This site started in 1995 and has been growing ever since, with a lot of pruning and paring to keep it fresh and relevant.

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Tools and Resources to Help You Write Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . How to manage and grow a business. This site started in 1995 and has been growing ever since, with a lot of pruning and paring to keep it fresh and relevant.

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Growth Could Kill Your Company!

Duct Tape Marketing

That decision cost the company its life. It is crucial to involve your employees right from the start of the growth management process, so they will have a sense of buy-in and commitment to the new vision. But as the world around them changes, they may be unable to adapt to the new reality. Kodak was a classic case of this.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

Here’s how we got here, what it’s going to cost us, and where we’ll end up. Car companies argued that talking safety would scare off customers, or that the added cost of safety features would put them in a competitive price disadvantage. These depended on the invention of low-cost, automotive-grade computers and sensors.