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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. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Widely, the blame as to what prompted the nosedive was being laid at the doorsteps of a new long-term growth strategy envisioned by the company’s top management— Infosys 3.0. But our managers didn’t get it. All the way from 1993 to 2000. A lot of people joined the industry from 1995-96.”. So what went wrong? Enter India.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

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). I didn’t really expect that consumer product evolution patterns will be so similar to software products – but the facts may surprise you. A look at how CMS evolved.

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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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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Here’s why.

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13 Important Branding Lessons From The Top 4 e-Commerce Giants

YoungUpstarts

No longer just an auction site, eBay introduced the “ Buy it Now ” option in 2000. By evolving to provide a more competitive user experience, eBay’s brand has managed to stay relevant and thrive. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. This is not an accident.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6