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	Podcast:		The NerdCast
	Episode:		Why Enterprises Should Stick to Their Startup Roots
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:24:32
	Publish Date:		2016-04-07 10:20:02
	Description:		Every company was once young, fast, and lean. And if you're the lucky company to make it out of the startup phase and transition into the enterprise phase, a lot of your fast and lean mentality that defined your early day's, diminishes into the massive employee-filled bureaucratic company that tends to be defined as an "enterprise." However, I've heard it all the time from enterprise employees, "I wish I was a startup. I wish I had smaller teams. I wish I could move faster. I wish, I wish, I wish. This company is so large that it takes forever to get anything done." While I agree that these startup characteristics are admirable, I argue that big and lean, is much better than small and lean. A large organization has the brand loyalty, the channels, the access to market, and the resources at the tips of their fingers. They can learn to be lean much easier than a startup that is trying to build all these assets. In episode 12 of the NerdCast, we explore how staying true to its startup roots allowed a large enterprise to grow into a household name.
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