Steve Blank

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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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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. So I started Foundation Capital in 1995. From electric cars to drones, DNA sequencing to robotic surgery, enterprise software to social media –the size and variety of these markets makes the Valley of my early days look bush league. Find Your Obession.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick

Steve Blank

In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. We learned it’s not just music for media it’s, well, here’s one use case, here’s another use case, who is doing it and why?

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Visionary CEOs have always been the face of their company, but today with social media, it happens faster with a much larger audience; boards now must consider what would happen to the valuation of the company without the founder.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

Comfort features evolved as well: climate control – first heat, later air-conditioning; and entertainment – AM radio, FM radio, 8-track tape, CD’s, and today streaming media. Media/entertainment systems. In the last decade GPS-driven navigation systems began to appear. began to decline. Navigation maps and controls.