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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others. percent to 24.3

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others. percent to 24.3

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

F urther Reading : Harvard Business Review Articles. The Ambidextrous Organization, Charles O’Reilly / Michael Tushman : April 2004. Darwin and the Demon: Innovating Within Established Enterprises, Geoffrey Moore : July/August 2004. The Quest for Resilience, Gary Hamel / Liisa Valikangas : Sept 2003. -

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

Well before the web existed, I was physically tearing articles out of industry magazines and sending them to customers, prospects, other entrepreneurs, and my partner Dave, who probably got tired of the stack of paper with notes scribbled on them that landed on his desk each day.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Today, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exploring the data privacy practices of Google and some of the third party developers who utilize their G Suite ecosystem. Return Path was among the companies mentioned in this article. People have come to expect a robust—and free!—online