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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

When Netscape went public, it unleashed a frenzy from the public markets for anything related to the internet and signaled to venture investors that there were massive returns to be made investing in anything internet related. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 2]

Agile VC

1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. A good example of this was Charles River Ventures experience with their 11th fund. And yes… great firms are self-confident too.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. You're at a constant level of anxiety, and it makes you more agile and responsive - a lot of good things happen.".

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Michael Chan.

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