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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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Growing Your Influence At Work

YoungUpstarts

How you govern your own behaviors and how you choose to relate to others will increase or decrease your influence in a fundamental way. The former president of a multi-million-dollar international company, in 2004 he started Price Associates , a global leadership advisory firm. Do you catch yourself making excuses or blaming others?

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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Opting-out of Face Recognition at Airports

Austin Startup

The government and the airlines pay attention to opinion of their customers. Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.

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SXSW Startups: New Age Meats

Austin Startup

I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year. Being forced to used broken processes and outdated systems, whether from your bank, government agencies, or backward healthcare companies. Sixclear automated the research labs and production environments of customers like NASA, Cisco, GE, and various US National Labs.

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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days. Many new programs have been popping up recently, thanks largely to funding from governments and private investors alike.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Dear Oracle, Get a Clue » Linux News » Other » everbeta.com on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Eric Barroca on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

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