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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

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. Today UEC Electronics has increased its workforce more than tenfold, from that original 10 to now 115, and is considered a key government contractor.

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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. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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What’s the Difference Between a Small Business Venture and a Startup?

Up and Running

The thing is, a tech startup or any type of startup for that matter (doesn’t have to be technology focussed) and a traditional, new business venture, are different for a number of reasons, most notably: the way they think about growth. Key difference #1 – how these entities think about growth. Your local cafe does not have this luxury.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? 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.

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Humanity’s Hegelian Golden Braid speech

Reid Hoffman

The speech centers on AI, humanity, and technology—and weaves through Hegel and Hofstadter, cathedrals and griffins, T.S. And to also remind us that language, our greatest technological tool, evolves with us. An emerging technology. Elliot and Hyman Minsky, and more. Here’s the first dictum: 1. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. “I

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

Public companies have dealt with financial disclosure in ways that evolved over time with markets and technologies. Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO. This brings us back to Mr.

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