Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
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.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 20, 2023
6- You don't have to do it all yourself Photo Credit: Rocco Del Greco When starting my advertising agency back in 1995, I believed that to be considered a legitimate business, I needed to invest in high-end printing equipment to produce color prints and large-format signage for my potential clients. .”
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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. The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); So how did we go from VCs discarding founders to founders now running large companies?
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – [link]. Excellent post about agile software development & some pitfalls of agility - [link]. Getting Funded: An Interview with Graphic.ly Co-Founder, Micah Baldwin – [link]. Disagreements and Debates Are Good Things – [link]. Interesting gamble.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 22, 2010
For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation. Expo SF (May.
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