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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. 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.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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Twitter Link Roundup #159 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet - [link]. Facebook Could Now Advertise To Children, Thanks To Updated Federal Privacy Rules – [link]. Amazon, Advertising’s Sleeping Giant, to Awaken in 2013 | Adweek - [link]. Facebook Preps to Bring Video Ads to News Feed | Advertising Age - [link].

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Applicants can simply right-swipe job advertisements that fit their credentials; otherwise, they can swipe them to the left. Starting with the ‘1984’ advertisement , Apple has changed the way we should be thinking, controlling our lives, and operating as individuals. What a great way to transform them into mobile advertisements.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet. GENERATION D (Digital).

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Experience – e.g. are the cloud vendors performing as advertised? What’s the ROI?

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