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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. For example, Ford was the first successfully mass produced car in the United States. Over the next ten years, while Ford focused on cost reductions, General Motors built a diverse and differentiated product line.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale. In 2012, analysts estimate they will do $425 million in revenue and $85 million in EBITDA.

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Go-Getters Showcase

Mike Michalowicz

Buzz, as most call him, has simplified digital marketing success with The Rule of 26 and is on a mission to double the website revenue of service-centric businesses across America. She helps entrepreneurs across the United States to better manage their business while reaching their business and personal goals. 20+ books sold.

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What Are The Best Markets For Startups?

YoungUpstarts

If you take a close look, you will instantly understand that China has considerably emerged, growing three times as fast as the United States. Its GDP can even overtake that of the United States. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. This is what the financial rankings suggest.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost. Two, revenue.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. Housing is cheap in the Central Valley, but the cost of living is even cheaper in India and Vietnam.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

Mostly I think new types of brokers will emerge and this will drive down transactions costs, improve services and make it easier to do business with people around the globe. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come.