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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. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

  It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida. And to me that means competing – and winning – in business – with an eye toward the purpose that we strive for.   They have a growth metric – one measurement of success – that focuses the attention of the entire enterprise.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Why do I do it?

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Series ORG-2000 is OriginGPS smallest fully featured GPS receiver.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., ALEXIA TSOTSIS.