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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

6- You don't have to do it all yourself Photo Credit: Rocco Del Greco When starting my advertising agency back in 1995, I believed that to be considered a legitimate business, I needed to invest in high-end printing equipment to produce color prints and large-format signage for my potential clients. Thanks to Dmitrii Kustov, RegexSeo ! #13-

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How to Relate Your Technology to Business Values

Startup Professionals Musings

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. How does your proposition address highly targeted advertising without a privacy backlash? This applies to startups as well as big companies. Risk reduction.

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Translate Your Startup Vision to Investor Values

Startup Professionals Musings

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. How does your proposition address highly targeted advertising without a privacy backlash? This applies to startups as well as big companies. Risk reduction.

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How to Relate Your Technology to Business Values

Gust

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. How does your proposition address highly targeted advertising without a privacy backlash? This applies to startups as well as big companies. Risk reduction.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The End of “Internet” Companies. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. Turns out commerce and advertising are kinda different businesses actually. I believe with unshakable conviction that the internet has been and will continue to be the most distruptive innovative force of of my lifetime.

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