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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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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. They compete on features, price and execution. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. Competence extends to architecture, user interface design, project planning, and other project-level issues.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy. Thanks guys!)

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Shes going to have a big impact on Minteds future.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Arguments in favour of serif typefaces. 1998 , Bernard et al., Bernard, M.,