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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Consequently, nearly every founder is attempting to weave an AI narrative into their ventures, regardless of its necessity or fit, which will likely lead to an unhealthy market environment and potentially drown out genuine opportunities. Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? How defensible are these businesses?

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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. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.

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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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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They bought distribution and engineering talent. That said, the founder is Stewart Butterfield , who co-founded Flickr.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

But, ultimately, product launches are merely one event in one phase of the product lifecycle. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. “It Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle.

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