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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.). It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work.

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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. Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

And one day a remarkable thing happened: we started making more than five dollars a day in revenue. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

ConversionXL

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Lean Analytics (book, mainly for startup folk, but good primer for all). So this is the past.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. That same shift is now coming to healthcare.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010.