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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.

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Build The Five Pillars Of “The Soft Edge” For A Powerful Competitive Advantage

YoungUpstarts

It’s their comfort zone: numbers, metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. It’s how companies become agile. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Superior number-crunching and analytics. It’s where brands are built.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Act on metrics – if you can’t measure it you can’t act on it to ensure that you are always improving the product. Here are a few pointers: Have your developers use agile development – they will love you for it.

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How Customer Development Failed Us

Steve Blank

Well, it just so happens that we’ve fitted Ross’s 2001 Subaru with a flux capacitor, gotten our hands on some plutonium and we’re about to hit eighty eight miles per hour! It’s the only reliable metric for success. Customer Development is like being Agile. Here’s what we plan to say: Write it Down. Make Money or Take Money?

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. A company can validate its growth metrics, Bullpen believes, in as little as four to six months after its initial funding periods. The spread he's talking about is the decimalization of the U.S.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

Most C-suites and shareholders speak the language of the hard edge: metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. Be as transparent as possible. Invite scrutiny.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’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. Robert Stanton.

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