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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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8 Ways The Stakes Are Higher On Customer Expectations

Startup Professionals Musings

No customer enjoys being blasted by irrelevant banner ads, and they don’t have time to sort through all the noise of products out there searching for an audience. Company finds customers based on interests. The best companies do their homework and find the right customers, based on demographics, prior purchases, and expressed interests.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Many may remember this idea from the Google court case in 2017, which required the site to remove results from all search listings following a delisting request. The GDPR gives this idea a stronger foundation.

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10 Search Engines That Don’t Start With A G, B, Or Y

YoungUpstarts

In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. Search are indisputably the most widely used. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. Google, Bing and Yahoo!

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What’s a better return on investment: Enterprise or consumer tech?

VC Cafe

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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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 invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Overture (Goto.com).

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Is Crypto Gambling or Investing?

Start Up Blog

Remember the dot com boom between 1995-2000? When you buy a stock of Apple, Alphabet or Amazon, their prices may well be depressed for a period, but it doesn’t stop people buying iPhones, searching or ordering online. I was experimenting with the technology, rather than investing. Things of value need utility or yield.