Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.
Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
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. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. —– When I came to U.C.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 22, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Expo SF (May.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0
Agile VC
OCTOBER 17, 2011
The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. In the ’80s a home computer was the preserve of wealthy and upper middle class families. Read More ».
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