1995 Internet Silicon Valley Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them?
Diego Basch
AUGUST 21, 2012
To put it in a few words: Silicon Valley and the internet industry are not one and the same. You could have made the exact same argument in 1995 but used the word “computer” instead of internet. Of course the internet is a tool to solve them, just like computers and calculators. I know a few.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2010
Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. But coming up with good startup ideas is hard.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves.
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