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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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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Today, CedarLane is the largest family-owned and operated national frozen food brand in the U.S. I co-founded CoverWallet with my friend, Inaki Berenguer, in 2015 after we saw firsthand the difficulties businesses face when it comes to managing insurance. Thanks to Robert Atallah, CedarLane Natural Foods ! #2 2 – Stranded.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). auto-throttle – to manage engine power in order to maintain a selected speed.

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How to Protect Your Small Business When Advertising Sales and Discounts [Part 2]

Up and Running

Most countries around the world have some kind of privacy legislation in place that governs how you should collect personal information, store it, and protect it. A privacy policy is a legal statement that explains how customer or user data is collected, used, managed, and disclosed. Let’s take a look. In the U.S.,

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Image Credit: Erryn Cobb.