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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time. Step 1: Calculate the annual increase. It turns out that you can do this with just two data points, and it’s pretty reliable.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A corporation, by contrast, is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable, scalable business model. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

They found a new market for this oil as Crisco, hydrogenated cottonseed oil designed to replace lard. billion in September 2011. In the 1950s, Ball branched out to begin creating goods and services for the aerospace sector, eventually exiting the glass business for good in 1996. In 1999, Goodrich became the No.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

" I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. via Landin Gee] "Your company focuses on design rather than creating sites that your customers can actually use. The 10/90 rule. People matter.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

13 Halloween-Themed Facebook Timeline Designs [PICS]. November 1, 2011 by Joshua Baer. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. AngelList is brilliantly designed to make it easy for investors to write checks to entrepreneurs. November 1, 2011 19:55:36.

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Do You Dream Of Becoming A CEO?

YoungUpstarts

percent in 1996 to 20.9 percent in 2011. Combs had been working full time at a bank while sewing drapes for interior designers on the side when she launched herself as The Mobile Seamstress, picking up and delivering her clients’ orders. Ted Schultz, 56, owner of Hylan Design Ltd. in Chicago, can attest to that.

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