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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. And it may work.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development. Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change, Clayton Christensen/Michael Overdorf: March/April 2000. - different processes.

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Boston Unicorns

Seeing Both Sides

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004), 2004), although the latter was founded in Dublin.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

Founders, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen past crises, cycles, and downturns as an investor and as a founder. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Because we know that this is the time for founders everywhere to step forward, not backward. March 30, 2020. I’m one of you. You must be nuts.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Thanks Lee.

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

The early 2000’s was also when the likes of legendary serial entrepreneurs Musk, Branson, and Jeff Bezos founded their own space tourism companies. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Anderson, and Mike McDowell charged a wealthy Californian $20 million for eight days of space orbit. Named after Alan B.