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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

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The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

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They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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