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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

Lean 60
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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

The shares given out can either be common stocks or preferred stocks. ? Debt investment. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? If you remember, Flipkart was valued at 15 Billion dollars in June 2015, but Morgan Stanley slashed its valuation to 5.37

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[Review] Twitter Is Not A Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Enriched with examples of successful brand marketing campaigns around the world – Axe and Nike in the US, Honda in Europe, to Anta and Volkswagen in China –” Twitter is Not a Strategy ” is a delightful journey into the heart of marketing in the digital age. Develop Deep Consumer Insight. Mass media versus one-to-one media.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. SPEC Campaign [link]. By 2015 ebooks will triple to $3 billion industry – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Way to go San Francisco!

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. That made our first winter in the shop very lean, but we made it through,” he says. We have leaned on LivePlan since we were a cart,” Stuart explains.

Oregon 60
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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. In step one, you created a lean plan, or a one-page pitch.