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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. Despite its low price point (US$35), the Raspberry Pi offers impressive technical capabilities and has become popular among hobbyists, researchers, and commercial businesses. The Renault Logan.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. HW: If you were just starting your career in tech, would SF still be where you chose to settle?

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Transformify Partners with Genashtim to Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Transformify

Over the next decade, the humanity will witness more technological change than it has seen in the past 50 years. Thus, the demand for knowledgeable workers with high levels of technical and soft skills will only increase.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners.

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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. lost a key, $10 million client due to market changes out of their control. Loss of key employee. Utilities, machinery or technology failure. But successful business owners will urge – don’t let this be you.