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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. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

New tech entrepreneurs can find it difficult to surmount the onslaught of obstacles to getting a new business off the ground. Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. Instead of watching TV or trolling the internet I thought I'd try my hands at coding.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- After a disappointment on my biggest day. After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. 4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. If you'd like to try your hand at being an entrepreneur inside one of the world's largest bureaucracies, you can apply right here starting today.

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Entrepreneurs Needed To Deliver Big Data Solutions

Startup Professionals Musings

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Facebook now exceeds a billion users posting, the Internet has 650 million websites, and there are 200 e-Commerce items ordered every second. Big Data business entrepreneur solutions startup' Every day, we create 2.5