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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. In terms of job creation, innovation, and productivity, entrepreneurs drive growth. These trends seem likely to persist. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. The Renault Logan , released in 2004, is a prime example of frugal innovation.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) How did the site come about? One day I came home and Molly , my future wife, was crying.

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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Supporting innovators in bringing cutting edge products, powered by technology, to solve society’s biggest needs. Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Venture remains attractive but LPs have been burnt With a 11.5%

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

First, did I care about / have affinity for the product? Next, were the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product? So, regarding the question of “do I care about / have affinity for the product of Mattermark”, the answer was a strong, unambiguous yes. This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. Just like a startup. More in future posts.

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