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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. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

But nobody celebrates the actual event. asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No There are launch parties but never any funerals, so we wanted to have an event that celebrates startups that don’t make it and what was learned from that.”. The event was different things to different people.”.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This Maker Movement has now spread across the world, spawning hundreds of events and companies, including Maker Faires, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, and Maker Film Fests. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

But nobody celebrates the actual event. asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No There are launch parties but never any funerals, so we wanted to have an event that celebrates startups that don’t make it and what was learned from that.”. The event was different things to different people.”.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. and Half.com.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Parking can be an issue in dense cities and for special events.