2000 Channel Hiring Lean 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. And it may work.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. Image source ).
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. As I mentioned in my post last week , scaling is hard. Really hard. Magical, really.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2020
And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. And you think about how hard it is to hire a normal employee in any business. Go get them.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2021
That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. ER : I remember Speed Date.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . Value add strategies make partners at VC firms more personally effective.
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