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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

But nobody celebrates the actual event. asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No There are launch parties but never any funerals, so we wanted to have an event that celebrates startups that don’t make it and what was learned from that.”. The event was different things to different people.”.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. How we think about the many facets of marketing: branding, positioning, events, advertising, and special projects we haven’t announced yet. Some of it is algorithmic. All that said, I do have more to share.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. and Half.com.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. If there’s a 5% chance of significant misunderstanding, that event doesn’t happen often. Everyone can know everything.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

But nobody celebrates the actual event. asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No There are launch parties but never any funerals, so we wanted to have an event that celebrates startups that don’t make it and what was learned from that.”. The event was different things to different people.”.