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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. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work.

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Via Codigo lays down it’s growth plan: Key Alliance with Transformify to Empower the Social and Labour Reintegration of Vulnerable Youth

Transformify

Also, the non-profit will start offering their program outside the juvenile detention centers. The students are thus trained to become top frontend developers ready to compete at an international level, and ready to work on real-life projects from the detention center. The future: from young offenders to prevention. About Transformify.

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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. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. There have never been more brands competing for attention than there are right now. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them.

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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. During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

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A Great Discussion with @skupor @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

We both are concerned about non-traditional capital entering the late stages and the impact that may have in the next downturn in the economy to the startups who merely trying to optimize for short-term valuation maximization. .” Most of those industries are fee-based and are competing on revenue growth. And we ended.

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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. a non-profit organization that provides financial and emotional assistance to burn survivors and their families.

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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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