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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

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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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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Large corporations have lost their ability to innovate.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year.

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Which language should my startup use?

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Such is its impressiveness, however, that Google released Django as the first supported language on their App Engine cloud computing platform, and a number of Rails developers are starting to transition over. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.