Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. Tell us about your business. What is unique about being a Healthy CEO?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The actual directory itself is straightforward. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap. But, I really do want you to lean into this one. The plots are from the American Time Use Survey , a multi-year study from 2003 to 2015 conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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