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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

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8 Pieces of Advice For CEOs That Need To Scale Their Startups

YoungUpstarts

“Looking to scale is a “rinse and repeat” function, as a start-up the job is to identify a repeatable and scalable business model. Burn rate: Seeing company grow fast is both exciting and overwhelming experience. Hire Talent. “I would say that hiring talent is were the story begins.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. Too much PR, too early. Author : Todd.