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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. Think YouTube meets Netflix).

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan.

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3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love

Duct Tape Marketing

Responsive design is simply a way that your site is coded so that the site checks how big of a screen the user has (such as a large monitor, medium-sized tablet, or smaller mobile) and then adjusts how the site looks based on that. Web hosting has come a long way since I setup my first self-hosted domain back in 2004.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Meanwhile, Micro VC has focused on sweeping changes in technology and consumer internet adoption that have enabled dramatically reduced capital requirements for building new software companies, as well as accelerated access to customers via search, social, and mobile platforms.

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Top 5 Great Apps in 2010 - Great Companies in 2011?

Seeing Both Sides

The vision for the company is compelling and what appears in the application today is a fraction of the possible (Dennis Crowley observed that he has only implemented something like 20% of his 2004 NYU thesis on location-based services ). This leading Twitter desktop and mobile app claims to have millions of subscribers. Instapaper.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. That same shift is now coming to healthcare.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Replay the event. the previous year.