Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan.
Hearpreneur
JUNE 4, 2021
Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. But I also leaned that is actually ok. From this, Urtasker was born.
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500hats.com
AUGUST 2, 2012
One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. One other firm that doesn’t always get a lot of popular acclaim but has a ton of operational expertise & widely global reach is Rocket Internet.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged.
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.
Scalable Startup
MAY 16, 2015
“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008? Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
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. That would have given you a trifecta. March 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm.
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