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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. 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. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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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. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. There have never been more brands competing for attention than there are right now. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. Everyone else?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I first started my web design agency in 2004, I was living on the water on Treasure Island, a beach community in Florida. The web — at that time — was a big sea, and my job was to make the little fish able to compete on the same level as any of their competitors. Thanks to Andy Bailey, Petra Coach ! #15-I

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10 Career Lessons We Can Learn From The Olympics

YoungUpstarts

Yet these traits do not only serve the athletes well in the arena; they can also be carried over into the non-Olympic sphere. It can be devastating to work so hard and have nothing to show for it, as Allyson Felix explained after finishing second in both 2004 and 2008 (though she came back this year to earn the gold). Have a game face.

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The Best Books for Marketers (New and Old)

ConversionXL

We put together a (non-comprehensive) list of some of the best marketing books, both new and old, to help you become a better marketer—and a better person. They are withholding benefits that considered necessary to compete. Mauborgne (2004). The right book, read and implemented, can transform your life, business, and career.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

The same goes for "non-competes" or non- solicitation covenants. My main qualm with the NDA, like you said, was that non of the ideas covered in the agreement were all that original - things that I had though of while waiting for water to boil and disregarded as not valuable. zuccaro.joe. | May 8, 2010 7:55 AM.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. I’ve been posting more and more recently, and my audience has grown faster than at any point in this blog’s history.