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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.

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How to Get the Most Out of a Sample Business Plan

Up and Running

You don’t have to be a business planning expert to develop a business plan; you just need to know your own business. With that alone, you can use a sample plan as a tool to write a business plan that serves your business needs. The formal business plans you’ll find as samples tend to be extremely comprehensive.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Small Business Labs. Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. The Millionaires Tax and Small Business Jobs.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai.