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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. They provide an excellent way for startups to train their employees without incurring the cost of a physical location or hiring more staff members. For starters, there are more startups. What’s behind this boom? Employee-Owned Startups.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Top 10 Tips For Female Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

The root of many business failures is not making the right hiring decisions. The idea of leaving a stable job to start your own business or investing your life savings in a start-up is undeniably daunting, so to run a successful business you need to have lots of confidence; in your product and yourself. Have confidence.

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The two reasons early stage investors should be active investors

The Equity Kicker

In the 1990s when companies needed £2-5m to get a product to market they had money to hire a team of people to help them. That’s partly about educating the founder, partly about helping her employ a great designer when the time is right, and partly about supporting the new hire when he starts.