Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. And it may work.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
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. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2010
If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. The diagram for managing disruptive innovation in large company looks suspiciously like starting from square one as a startup. I’ll offer that the diagram looks something like this.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.
Steve Blank
MARCH 17, 2020
They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. While the impact on small businesses and workers in the “gig-economy” hasn’t made the news, it will be worse for them. Keep in mind, that today’s circumstances are different.
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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