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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Importantly, what does this all mean for startups?

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. For most online vendors, this new revenue model was a significant change in the way brands set advertising campaigns. It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company. That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew. The power of this brand has come from its extensive advertising. The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories.

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Web 3.0 Brings a New Wave of Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Current advertising and public relations startups are already thinking along these lines in fields all the way from clothes shopping, art galleries, online advertising, to managing press releases. If you are the first to deliver this, your startup can be the next Google success! is getting louder and louder. business.

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Starting an Online Casino

The Startup Magazine

The quickest and cheapest way to startup an online casino. It will help in formulating an advertising strategy. The startup websites are now fully developed, and they are functioning properly. Bet365 is a UK based online casino started in 2001 offering a wide variety of games that include bingo, poker, skill games and others.

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Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.