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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. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth.

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The Profound Connection Between Poverty And Burn Injuries

YoungUpstarts

by Celia Belt , author of “ Remarkably Intact: Angels Are No Strangers to Chains “ Late one night in December of 2000, I found myself driving home from another long day of volunteering on the burn unit. Celia Belt , a burn survivor, is the founder of the award-winning Moonlight Fund Inc., Some, sadly, resort to suicide.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. You can find more ideas here: Product Pricing Strategies and Techniques Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From Should I Lower My Prices To Compete?

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The non-profits and businesses below all came from realizing that I needed some help in an area that was ever changing. I choose to create non-profits as I felt that would give us better opportunities to get financial help, but that did not prove to be the case. We connect with local non-profits, we call our Blanket Buddies.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Furthermore, O’Reilly’s own examples demonstrate the difference between a blitzscalable and non-blitzscalable market. O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO.

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