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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Small Business and Startups: Dear Santa - [link]. I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet - [link]. “your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” This is what the internet looked like in 1995. The Top Five Career Regrets | Daniel Gulati-Harvard Business Review - [link].

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. Business people are bad at deciding what to do with technology, because they dont know what the options are, or whichkinds of problems are hard and which are easy.

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