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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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. Still, unless your startup has access to large pools of capital or have a brand name like Katzenberg, Lean still makes sense. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Taking My Class.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. Setup a simple website. Expo SF (May.

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Beyond the Full-Time CMO: How Companies are Opting for a Fractional Future

Duct Tape Marketing

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? How would you briefly describe this role to someone unfamiliar with it? You're ready to graduate.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots. Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said.

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

blog.expensify.com

Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years? Now name one that didn’t come from Microsoft? I challenge you to name a 1.7 March 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm. [.]

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