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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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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. In a startup the board of directors realizes that risk is the nature of new ventures and innovation is why they exist.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. In a startup the board of directors realizes that risk is the nature of new ventures and innovation is why they exist.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. Some proclaim it is critical to the success of any startup and that it is even the DNA of any modern startup. WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Absolutely.

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Don't Let the Wrong Name Sink Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

For startups, not as much as you might think. But the online database of talent agents has been around since 2001 (capitialized as WhoRepresents?com Can a bad name kill a startup? Names that combine two words, like Agilent , are OK for business-to-business companies but not so good for consumer-facing businesses.

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