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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Twitter Link Roundup #27 – Design, Writing, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Co-Founder, Micah Baldwin – [link]. Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – [link]. Good startup lessons shared by @robjohnson & joshfraser (founders) about EventVue failure - [link]. Getting Funded: An Interview with Graphic.ly Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - [link].

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Working with my business partner and with my PR consultant, I first came up with the tag line, Motivate To Activate Your True Potential(tm). As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo!

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In the early 2000s, my co-publisher and I were writing a book on how to break into freelance writing by breaking the rules. We had a tough rebrand as we were initially founded as Trainer Communications in 1995, however we made the official transformation to 10Fold Communications in 2015. Thanks to David Batchelor, DialMyCalls ! #11-Suggested

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.