Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. 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.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

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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Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

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.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

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. In either case Customer Development provides entrepreneurs with a methodology for being capital efficient. Lessons Learned.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

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.

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San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121