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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. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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Metaverse – Hype of Reality?

Start Up Blog

Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 There is no organisation in the history of the planet who nows more about individuals including every partner and government in the history of the planet. Both in terms of revenue and profit.

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Growing Your Influence At Work

YoungUpstarts

How you govern your own behaviors and how you choose to relate to others will increase or decrease your influence in a fundamental way. The former president of a multi-million-dollar international company, in 2004 he started Price Associates , a global leadership advisory firm. Do you catch yourself making excuses or blaming others?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 18 – General James Mattis

Steve Blank

This is not a government that’s run in Washington and does its own thing like Beijing does, or Moscow does in their country. This is a government of the people, by the people for the people. So the answer is- do not give up on your principles, your values, your way of life, your constitutional form of government.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Gust

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer). When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was.