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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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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. In 1995, I was the only one of my friends using email and there were no cell phones. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). A “normal” person was expected to have read the manual to learn how to use a new phone.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.)

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. The management team wasn’t strong enough. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. Internet pioneers. I was baffled.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. Who flourishes? What a mistake!

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Gen Z vs. Millennials: Attract Younger Nonprofit Board Members

Board Effect

The millennial generation was born between 1980 and 2000. Some attribute this to the fact that they use the internet for everything, which makes them more knowledgeable in many areas than people of other generations. The Gen Z population was born after 1995 and makes up about a tenth of the nation’s population. Millennials.