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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit Career Expos. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Not Embracing Agility. "If Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Entertainment.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. IMVU learned to learn. Please do try this at home.

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