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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute.

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Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. How to Improve Hiring at Startups – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. How to Improve Hiring at Startups – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. Or, as a bigger fund, you could hire a placement agent--someone who specializes in helping you raise a fund. scratches bald head].

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Image source ).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

Hollywood in the beginning was a bunch of artists who wanted to make entertainment, and then the whole infrastructure of PR and hangers on and the New York money came in. Among these was the realization that a formal onboarding process for new hires is critical. You hire really smart people-. So what was wrong with that?