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. 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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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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. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. I believe the issue isn’t whether we’re on a 25-year tech cycle or that the next 8 years are really going to be great.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

But one more question about your “lessons learned&# , as the option is not there: what happens when: i) the founder is still around ii) you’ve got a business in the middle of a huge transition (think media in present times) and iii) you’ve also got the “new guys with the fresh vision&# on the management team.

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