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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. 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.

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

The Startup Magazine

They provide an excellent way for startups to train their employees without incurring the cost of a physical location or hiring more staff members. 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.

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

www.redmonk.com

One virtual machine per fisherman: On IBM, Linux, Mainframe and the cloud Where The Developers Are: Macs, MarkLogic, Autodesk, SAP On The Analyst Business: Stars, Quadrants and Developers On HP hiring Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, and the Ray Lane Manoeuvre My Firehose follow me on Twitter yours truly Recent Comments ???IT???Java??(2010?)

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

www.redmonk.com

One virtual machine per fisherman: On IBM, Linux, Mainframe and the cloud Where The Developers Are: Macs, MarkLogic, Autodesk, SAP On The Analyst Business: Stars, Quadrants and Developers On HP hiring Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, and the Ray Lane Manoeuvre My Firehose follow me on Twitter yours truly Recent Comments ???IT???Java??(2010?)

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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Wisdom from Hyper-growth Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s great information here about hiring, team structure, and best practices that will make you smarter. Ari Gesher is a senior engineer at Palantir Technologies, creating data-mining software for government and financial clients. So when people say, ‘The solution to having a high-growth company is to hire good people,’ that’s true.

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

Many start-ups are going through ups and downs and this change would both incentivize them to hire more when things are going well and lay off less people in the downturns Examples from other countries: Russia reduced IT companies’ social contributions from 30% to 14% until the end of year 2017 2.