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7 New Opportunities Based On Trends And Demographics

Startup Professionals Musings

Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 82.9

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. 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. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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7 Societal Changes That Invite New Venture Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 86.6

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7 Demographic Shifts Bring Great Business Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 86.6

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. Peter: I feel like the industrial design guys were so happy about this kind of thing in 2002, 2004. They actually come in from interior pages. Jonathan: Now why is that?

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