Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. 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. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. IPOs dried up.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Lessons from a Failed Forecast. Emergent Research.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. 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. Everything disappeared.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai.

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