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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. For lessons from Matt and his Return Path management team, many of who are now execs at Bolster, you want to read Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. For lessons from Matt and his Return Path management team, many of who are now execs at Bolster, you want to read Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. Managing 10,000 virtual servers in the Cloud Era sounds easy. Recruiting. Your emails are probably misinterpreted 40% of the time, by the way.) Technology & Infrastructure.

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5 Free Social Media Management Tools to Make Your Life Easier

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Free Social Media Management Tools to Make Your Life Easier written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. However, since there are so many popular social networks you need to be a part of – plus new ones are continually being added to the mix – it’s nearly impossible to manage all of those accounts manually.