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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen. I admire Microsoft for its exceptional contribution to technology and innovation. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #20-

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. This is due to businesses adhering to the General Data Protection Regulation standards. Although the GDPR applies to European countries, it doesn’t just apply to Europe-based companies. The GDPR gives this idea a stronger foundation.

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Is Crypto Gambling or Investing?

Start Up Blog

The technology underpinning them (like blockchain and DLT) is brilliant and has many use cases. I was experimenting with the technology, rather than investing. But like any burgeoning technology, it must go through a speculative boom and bust before it can settle into the economic infrastructure. It is here to stay.

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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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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 1995 ; De Lange et al., 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ). Introduction. Definitions. Legibility vs. readability.

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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. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. But today, it is getting harder and harder to maintain.