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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

And enterprise customers in a race to reconfigure strategies, channels, and offerings to deal with disruption provide a willing market for startup tools and services. And if the company does go public, the valuations are at least 10x of the last bubble. They can now sell part of their investment when they raise the next round.

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Low-Cost Business Ideas for 2022

ReadWriteStart

Conforming with Torchbankz, the dropshipping industry is expected to reach a market valuation of $557.9 Brands looking to take one step closer to their customers can also develop a mobile app/chatbot and use other promotion channels. billion before 2025.

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Internet of Things: The Skills Connected Companies Look For In Young Professionals

YoungUpstarts

As I highlighted in a recent blog post , digitally mature companies derive more revenue from their physical assets (+9%), are more profitable (+26%) and have overall higher market valuations (+12%). It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility. The ability to collaborate in diversity.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. Act Like a Startup.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Next-Gen Marketing Option for Fast-Growth Companies

The Startup Magazine

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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What do Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, and Tony Hsieh Have in Common?

Growthink Blog

One has only to look at Facebook and Groupon’s multi-billion dollar valuations or Twitters 190 million+ users after just a few short years in business to see this. It is an ambition that is channeled daily into ongoing personal and professional improvement and learning. An ambition that leads to goals beyond the realistically possible.

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