Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. Lean into social. by Kelly Morr, Senior Manager of Content Strategy at 99designs. A generation brought up with constantly evolving technologies, Millennials are the most digitally aware and technically savvy of any preceding age group.

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Marketing eCommerce Technical Review Social Media 150

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

Customer and Agile Development (and the Lean Startup ) may be the emerging methodologies large companies need to build innovative new products. Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change, Clayton Christensen/Michael Overdorf: March/April 2000. - More in future posts. Lessons Learned. F urther Reading : Harvard Business Review Articles.

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Search Agile Customer Development Technical Review 242

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. Kirsten is leading our program development and speaker selection -- curating a four day, multi-tracked, 2000-person event. We’re reaching into the Lean Startup community to find hidden gems--the stories we don't know (yet).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. Just like in lean manufacturing, its generally more efficient to drive down the batch size.

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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

in February 2000 – part time, with the goal to quit my full-time job within one year. By the end of December, 2000 I had sold over $100,000 in Hunter Douglas shadings, through my company, Custom Blinds for Less, Inc. I started this in business part-time, in 2000, loaded with a prayer and a fully stocked min-van.

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Balance Sheet Design Founder Omaha 98

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. Image source ).

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. The Ultimate Photoshop Patterns Collection: 2000+ Patterns – [link]. There’s a tremendous wealth of insight in his answers and the way he engaged the Reddit audience. I encourage you to spend some time reading the AMA – you’ll learn a great deal.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. There is so much to manage for an enterprising small business that it makes sense to lean on experts like the one’s crowdSPRING provides for the things like graphic work.

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Over 2000 proposals have been reviewed and over 40 investments made across the world in a wide range of sectors, with many more under negotiation.

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

workers in 2017, up from just over 3% in 2000. With careful advance planning and dutiful application of the work ethic that’s brought you to this point, you might just shave valuable days off that transition and turn up your lean, mean work-at-home machine ahead of schedule. Who knew the adventure of your life could be so profitable?

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Cloud Social Media Lean Cost 111

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. But the data are clear that average investment returns increase in the years after a downturn (although part of the lesson here is clearly not to lean in too quickly).

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Valuation Portfolio Database Early Stage 118

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. You’ll get awesome video content, including the video Lean Startup course I created exclusively for Udemy. You’ll the complete video recording of the amazing Lean Startup track at SXSW 2011 , every single presentation. You can get time with me, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. Now is the time to think Lean.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Brendan Sterne , who unearthed the above articles on Amazon’s process, notes that Amazon differs from the model advocated in Lean Startup, which “aims to put a concrete prototype in front of consumers to validate the product.”. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. This post is part five. Parts one through four are here , Syllabus is here. . Week 5 of the class.

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Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 17, 2017

If you’re making computers costing $500 in parts and need to have 5 stocked in each of 2000 stores globally, then you’ve spent $5 million (on parts) out of your pocket that you won’t see until ages later when all those computers are [hopefully] sold. This one idea is how Dell ended up so successful in the 90s.

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Technical Review Lean Founder Stock 20

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. — The Hawken School entrepreneurship program is modeled on the Lean LaunchPad curriculum, and has been adopted by high schools across the country. And we missed another detail like the procurement process in hospitals in Brazil were corrupt.

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Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder 158

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2013

I used to joke that ASPs (remember that term) were the mom and pop businesses of the late 90’s early 2000’s. Maybe the proliferation of tools has expanded faster than demand (One of the great cases in Ash Maurya’s book, Running Lean is defining the problem to solve and whether the problem is worth solving).

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Lean Stock Portfolio Email 146

Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

How can we tell founders to stay lean, keep focused on their customers, and keep burn rates low if we cannot walk the talk and eat our own dog food? The macroeconomic conditions of 2000, 2008 or even 2016 — none of that matters to them. We are consumed with generating great returns for our limited partners.

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Burn Rate Limited Partner Bootstrapping Portfolio 60

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. — The Hawken School entrepreneurship program is modeled on the Lean LaunchPad curriculum, and has been adopted by high schools across the country. And we missed another detail like the procurement process in hospitals in Brazil were corrupt.

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Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder 120

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says. Everything's better with the lean model. The question is why?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

Marc Andreessen and Eric Ries were tweeting how many of 1998-2000 web startup ideas failed but are succeeding now. If you can convince an investor this is good market and opportune time, you have them leaning-in towards the deal. Big market but wrong time vs right time.

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Term Sheet Lean Distribution Web 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Are you in the “lean&# phase? I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. So here’s my framework. Fund raising can be black-and-white.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. In my mind, the best VCs actually deliver outsized returns by “leaning on the scale” not by “deal sourcing.” Great VCs create the fabric of their success by backing the best entrepreneurs they have access to and then helping them to lean on the scales.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 Start with a lean plan if you’re eager to get up and running fast or if you’re simply interested in validating your idea. From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. population. percent by 2030.

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North America United States Technical Review America 95

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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?

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). With the use of our lean start up methodologies and design thinking an entrepreneur can increase their chances of success at a lower cost and arrive at a viable business model sooner.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. .

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