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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. Silly, right?

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Startups and Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Clichés

Up and Running

Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. This brings us to our last cliché which is essentially the answer to this question: you use the business plan as the filter, but you do not use the BIG, wordy, old-school business plan, you use the lean business plan. The best approach is in fact the LEAN business plan.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Blog at WordPress.com. Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I live my life pursuing my purpose and hope I can help others do the same via digital guided journals on topics relevant to the single woman, the Urban Spinster podcast and blog contributed articles. In the Lean world, “green” means project details are on track. Thanks to Sadia S. Sanders, Urban Spinster ! #2- 2- Based on what we do.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014. percent over the past year, three times the national average.