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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record ā€“ head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Startups with huge burn rates ā€“ building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. Then one day it was over.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

2001 ā€“ 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. VCā€™s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

This is a reference to the founder and CEO, Jeremy Knauff’s background in an infantry unit as a United States Marine. Now THAT’S an industry known for overusing a founder’s name.) I was a PR professional working for a large corporation and making plans to start my own PR company.

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CEO Friday: Why we donā€™t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Federico Delgado.

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