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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. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our business development discussions took longer than planned. Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. We downsized, developed processes and found our groove. We were hot.

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link]. 5 Design Tips Every Developer Should Know | Treehouse Blog – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. Like Nuance, AT&T has developed specific taxonomies for specific use cases, allowing its servers to anticipate the words and phrasing consumers are likely to speak in a particular context.

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How to Start a Home Health Care Business

Up and Running

percent in 2000 to 19.6 To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. population.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development.

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Why the “Expert” Mindset Can Kill Every Sales Opportunity: The Mental Shift That Yields Remarkable Results

YoungUpstarts

by Andrew Sobel, author of “ It Starts With Clients: Your 100-Day Plan to Build Lifelong Relationships and Revenue “ You’re great at what you do. What has been the most important leadership development experience in your career so far? How is this impacting your priorities in learning and development?

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