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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Finally, it provides essential visual information at a low cost. The Renault Logan , released in 2004, is a prime example of frugal innovation. Google Street View allows individuals and businesses to explore destinations, plan trips, and navigate unfamiliar areas without leaving their homes. Mobile banking in developing countries.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004. While it didn’t make me cynical, I calibrated my filters as I slogged through three more very long years between 2004 and 2007.

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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. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. Every startup is in a race against time. The result?

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

ConversionXL

Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”). If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do a proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? One or two menus?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

All of the following systems involve software / hardware to inform drivers or physically take action on a car’s throttle, brake, or steering systems. The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers.

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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

YoungUpstarts

No one would suggest eliminating smartphones from our day-to-day lives and business operations, so following some simple mobile security guidelines can make all the difference in protecting your private information. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. Protect the investment physically with a hard cover and screen protector.

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