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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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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Business accountability is a hallmark feature of the GDPR, and one aspect that ensures compliance from all companies operating within the EU in some fashion online. Companies Will Need To Prove They Are Protecting Data.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Let’s see what we’ve learned in 100 years of designing controls and automation for aircraft cockpits and pilots, and what it might mean for cars. How do you design for situation awareness ?

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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. Here are five things to look at: 1. Review What Worked.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Starting with the ‘1984’ advertisement , Apple has changed the way we should be thinking, controlling our lives, and operating as individuals. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. There are many ways to be successful in web design , but the industry is highly commoditized and competitive.

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[Review] The E-Myth Revisited

YoungUpstarts

Management Strategy : System designed to produce a marketing result, covering all aspects of the business. Usually results in the development of an Operations Manual ; 5. Organizational Strategy : Organization charts, position contracts, and other HR details; 4.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. We talked about patents.

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