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Gordon Bell R.I.P.

Steve Blank

He had an extraordinary instinct for guiding me away from the purely dumb paths that would lead nowhere and nudge me on to the more productive roads. (He 2004 I’ll miss him. The best part of my day was hearing him tell me about 3 ideas at a time and me do the same back to him. It was a privilege to know him.

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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. However, the impact of this frugal technology has been immense.

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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

From a technology point of view, new tech tools like generative AI means that tasks can be accomplished with fewer resources and at a higher speed. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Luck favours the bold!

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

Steve Blank

Over time, innovations outside the company (demographic, cultural, new technologies, etc.) He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. Customer and Agile Development may be the methodologies that large companies need to build innovative new products.

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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

The evolution of technology brought smokers a different experience called ‘vaping’. The vaping market has so far proven to be highly profitable, not only due to the increasing popularity of e-cigarettes, but also because technology plays a big part in the vaping market. Opportunity for entrepreneurs.

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