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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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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”? Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. The solution: build a brand.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Jamdat Mobile files for IPO

BeyondVC

As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. In addition, imagine the competition to get distribution from the carriers-there are lots of little guys knocking on the door.

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