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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. By demonstrating proven marketing expertise, we can provide a consistent, valuable experience for our audience. Modern brand marketing methods to build an audience.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Nice talk, thanks for sharing.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

The thesis of our current business model (startups are all about testing theses) was that there was a need for video producers and content owners to make money from their videos, and that they could do that by charging their audience. Too much PR, too early. We found both sides of that equation didn’t really work. Too much money.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. It was the wrong audience. That would have given you a trifecta. It is ironic.

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