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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. Almost overnight the floodgates opened, and risk capital was available at scale from venture capital investors who rushed their startups toward public offerings. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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A Closer Look At The Quality Of Angel Returns Data

David Teten

Small, agile funds are in an excellent position to take advantage of opportunities in the angel space. As Jon Calligan of True Ventures explains , “The numbers just don’t add up. All exits occurred between 1990 and 2007—the vast majority after 2000. Only one metric showed statistical differences between these deals and others.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. You're at a constant level of anxiety, and it makes you more agile and responsive - a lot of good things happen.".

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. End result? What do you think?