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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

My last job prior to starting my own business was in medical device sales within the aesthetic space.This led me to start a digital marketing firm specializing in the aesthetic industry. 2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Tom La Vecchia.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Spartan Media is a web design and online marketing firm that was named after a historical group of warriors, the Spartans, which you probably remember from the movie 300. Choosing the name for my new marketing agencies was much harder than I anticipated! Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. #1

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. Big ideas and creative stuff either aren’t coming out of the.NET world, or.NET based projects/startups suck at marketing. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Help your business out.

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