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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.

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The Future Of Work Is Distributed

Feld Thoughts

My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road. In 1995, at the dawn of the age of the commercial Internet, this involved landlines, answering machines, pagers, and fax machines.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

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 world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Carpe Diem.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

It was just such a joy to develop things. Then in 1991 I came up with a product for developers that turned out to be important enough to build a company around. In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. How can we optimize for global distribution. You’ve IPOed two companies.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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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. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.