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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

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.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

I have published many of these PR Tips before. It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Not kidding.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I did this for a few years while I recovered from multiple cases of pneumonia, my dad passing away, and so many other terrible events that 25 year olds shouldn’t have to deal with all at once. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. 22 – To Help People.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. IdeaLab has a philosophy that if they can get a centralized group of expert staff to help with legal, accounting, recruiting, PR, etc.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

4- From a mud run event. We put on 3 events, and no one new how to pronounce the event. I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Working with my business partner and with my PR consultant, I first came up with the tag line, Motivate To Activate Your True Potential(tm). We called it CerebRun.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

We had a tough rebrand as we were initially founded as Trainer Communications in 1995, however we made the official transformation to 10Fold Communications in 2015. Thanks to Mike May, Brightspot Incentives & Events ! #17- When we thought of Brightspot as our new name, we were instantly attached. 17- A 3 part explanation.

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