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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

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The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Part of this is due to their determination to overtake us, but part is due to structural changes in the nature of entrepreneurship. Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. But today, it is getting harder and harder to maintain.

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Why Business Relationships Take More Than Texting, Friending, And Online “Connecting”

YoungUpstarts

Yes, technology has made many aspects of modern living more convenient and “connected,” but the pendulum has swung too far. This “technology takeover” is not without consequence. And all of these issues are at least partially due to the fact that genuine human connections have been replaced by mouse-clicks and keystrokes.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. New Communications Review. The Global Small Business Blog. Member since 01/2005.

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