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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. Still, unless your startup has access to large pools of capital or have a brand name like Katzenberg, Lean still makes sense.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1 – A Name to Trust. The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Photo Credit: Shaun Gray.

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Sunk Costs: An invisible, pervasive peril

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Many of my mistakes can be traced back to a failure to recognize and appreciate "sunk cost.". The term comes from economics: "Sunk Cost" is money you've already spent and cannot get back no matter what. Of course we carbon-based life forms can rarely be described as "rational," especially when it comes to ignoring sunk costs.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. it seems that Twitter should have the same Google-like cost advantage. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Finally, I HATE the name. They could take a long term view.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Two, establish a formal reimbursement program to reimburse employees for their substantiated individual health insurance costs on a post-tax basis — up to a healthcare allowance specified by the company.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! You or your domain name registrar will need to amend your DNS name server records to point your domain to your CDN’s servers. Google has started to recommend a format called JPEG 2000. Anything over 1 second is a problem.

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