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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. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. I eventually needed more money.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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10 Classic Business Naming Mistakes

Up and Running

Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. But when they started to grow, Victoria’s Secret would have had legal right to force them to come up with a new name.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Email address: Home. Newsletters.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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