Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. It’s awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

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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