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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. And it may work.

Lean 335
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Grow Your Business With the Right Mix of Strategy and Culture

Up and Running

There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Regardless, the quote is used extensively these days to emphasize the importance of how a company operates over the why. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” .

Lean 107
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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. The ripple and feedback effect of all of these closures will have a major impact on our economy, as each industry that gets impacted puts people out of work, and those laid off workers don’t buy products and services. Alter the product? Laying off people?

Burn Rate 436
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7 Approaches To Help You Generate More Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. And I'm going to start by citing a, a recent Texas tech survey of 2000 consumers. Why is there such a gap? Why is there such a gap?

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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. All the way from 1993 to 2000. He believes this is why India is at the top of the technology services space, but doesn’t seem to lead when it comes to creating products. The reason? Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider.

India 165
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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I use the money made from my private clients to launch intelligence operations against our enemies. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products. 15- Upset with various products.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc.