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The Trend Towards Lean Startups :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox.

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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work. Networking People benefit from being part of a community?—?from

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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

When even a guy trying to be Mayor of your city leaves it… As they say, “Houston St., It’s a direct contrast to the monoindustry of the Bay Area—a tightly concentrated network of influence, wealth, and power. At least, that’s what Mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang and many, many others thought, too. we have a problem.” Don’t @ me… I know.)