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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. 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. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

Change France’s image with a strong PR message about a new law favoring start-ups France is mostly known abroad for the 35-hour week, and the 75% tax rate it tried to introduce (and was fortunately considered unconstitutional). Frederic Mazzella addressing Francois Hollande and John Chambers at the Elysee dinner 4.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. Thanks to Nicole Nurse, Black Leopard PR ! #27) I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. Kinda muddies the waters from a PR perspective, and quite possibly with the folk at Sand Hill. Federico Delgado. “Why?”

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Generally the rights of citizens are protected by The Constitution and by the government.” “I

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