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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Now, we can share our proven business model with people everywhere. I became a business owner because I could. I was tired of the bureaucracy of government and corporate work along with limited vacation days (my balance was always bouncing off of zero!). I just wanted to simplify everything. Our focus has never changed.

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Howard Charney on Cisco, Growth, and Cloud Computing

Austin Startup

Five years ago, almost no one was talking about cloud – but today it is increasingly strategic for a broad range of industries, for academia, for governments. The “Cloud” is a fairly disruptive model and it will take people time to understand how best to adapt to it and benefit from it. billion business.

Cloud 74
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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. To blitzscale successfully, you need a successful business model.

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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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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan. Business Model versus Business Plan Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

Deskmag , a popular online magazine about coworking, published this history of coworking which suggests that the first official spaces opened for business in 2005. Some local governments are even embracing telecommuting as a solution to traffic and pollution woes. How do I know if coworking is right for me?

Austin 48
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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. Whether Millennials, our largest generation at 80 million strong, can harness their enthusiasm into viable businesses models remains to be seen.

Las Vegas 113