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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. The result?

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Working Capital vs. Cash Flow: The Differences and How to Better Manage Them

Up and Running

Say you’re moving across the country, which can cost anywhere from $1500 to $6000 on average. On the other hand, if you receive a payment of $2000, that’s considered income or revenue, you’ll generate positive cash flow that can be reinvested in other areas. . What is working capital?

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

It can be difficult to forecast the future trajectory of publicly listed technology companies, especially in the short term – after all, most of the available information is already capitalized in their current share prices. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost.

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Crowdfunding Your Startup with MicroVentures

ReadWriteStart

MicroVentures isn't disclosing a lot of details about the first three deals that it's funded, but it says that these ranged from $2000 to $25,000 increments, with the average investment roughly $5000. MicroVentures does the due diligence for investors, running a variety of checks on financials, forecasts, use of funds, burn rate and so on.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. What once cost $20,000 and was produced by skilled researchers in a lab, now costs $500 and is produced by hobbyists working part-time. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive. Not a giant outsourcer playing the cost arbitrage game. All the way from 1993 to 2000. The reason? An SOS sent out by shareholders and those in the top tier of the IT major after it reported the weakest of annual earnings for 2013.

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How Much Capital Do You Need To Start Forex Trading Full Time?

The Startup Magazine

Remember that when you work with less money, the cost per trade is bound to be high. On the other hand, you shouldn’t be in a hurry to increase your earnings from $1000 to $2000. But, while you seek help, you should never forget to check the market forecast for the forthcoming week.

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