Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or heaven forbid, profits. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. ” This was around 2001. Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica ran things as lean as she could for the next few months while figuring out what to do. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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