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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Will these third parties produce something people will watch? But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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Magento Keeps Going from Strength to Strength

VC Cafe

According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008. Similar to Wordpress, Magento has an active open source community, developing extensions and plugins for free. Varien was founded in 2001 by CEO Roy Rubin and is based in Los Angeles.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Founding Akamai.