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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. IPOs dried up.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Expo SF (May.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. It gets you to a business faster. Guido Kovalskys.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. It gets you to a business faster. Guido Kovalskys.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? They don’t think about the customers problem. you can hire for those.