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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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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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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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Howard Charney on Cisco, Growth, and Cloud Computing

Austin Startup

In these uncertain economic times, how has Cisco been able to expand its business operations? Well, first off, Cisco has a focus on operational excellence and productivity. But we’re also fortunate that Cisco’s products and services are fundamental to business operations and consumer. online activities worldwide.

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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.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The second is a lack of operational scalability. These companies didn’t blitzscale; they scaled sustainably.”.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.