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Your 2016 Budget: A Cost And Analysis Guide For Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

Budgets are a tricky facet for any business owner however being one of the most critical aspects to the operations, productivity, profitability, and growth of a business. Every year, dynamic markets, the state of the economy, and consumer demands change the requirements of a business and the costs of operation.

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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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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Widely, the blame as to what prompted the nosedive was being laid at the doorsteps of a new long-term growth strategy envisioned by the company’s top management— Infosys 3.0. Not a giant outsourcer playing the cost arbitrage game. But our managers didn’t get it. A lot of people joined the industry from 1995-96.”.

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As Year-End Approaches, 4 Things Businesses Should Do Now To Ensure 2015 Success

YoungUpstarts

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it is critical for businesses to determine what initiatives where successful, as well as what were financial weights in order to create strategic operational goals that will result in increased revenues and reduced costs in the next year. Increase Efficiency While Reducing Costs.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website. The GoodBuzz team currently comprises five people – three software engineers, one marketing manager and an operations officer - and works closely with an advisory board of industry specialists.

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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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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. The founders. 4. Founder-friendly VCs.

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