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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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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. What Do VC’s Do? They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Private Equity sees infrastructure investing as uncorrelated diversification and has the additional upside of correcting any operational inefficiencies. CALPERs, for example, has devoted over $4b of portfolio to infrastructure related projects. [4].

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Andy Rachleff on his 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories

Startup Lessons Learned

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. This was near and dear to my heart, because over the years as a venture capitalist, I had recruited a lot of people to join my portfolio companies who went on to financial success, and they would often come to me for investment advice. That's not it at all.