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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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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. How about your Investors ?

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. Halling said.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised. Every publicly accessible Redmine instance which is not patched will be compromised.

Security 101
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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. P.S. Do #1.

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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. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise.