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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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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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 reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Carpe Diem.

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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. The two watershed events for biotech startups were the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and the Orphan Drug Act of 1983. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why.

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5 Online Tips For Food Trucks to Grow Their Business

Kodorra

Millennials are in fact the ones who consume the most digital technology, hence they are also fittingly labeled as the digital generation. So, here are five tips on how food truck startups could embrace the online technology to get longer queues outside their trucks. Get invited to be at those events where the crowd is.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. If you have kids make sure you find ways to occasionally drive them to school or turn up at their school events.

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Great Startups Sell Around Gartner Hype Predictions

Startup Professionals Musings

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. The magic of the ‘live’ event is being re-born. The free on line is the digital sampling of the event with the real connection…. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event.

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