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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record ā€“ head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Personal Technology. What They Know. All Things Digital. See a sample reprint in PDF format.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.ā€. Iā€™m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Andy Rachleff on his 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories

Startup Lessons Learned

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial.

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Seth Sternberg ā€“ Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? The founders have started companies before.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valleyā€™s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If Oā€™Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Plenty of headroom there!