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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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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

The term “startup” often refers to companies in high-tech industries such as information technology, biotech, social media, robotics, hardware manufacturing, etc. Now it’s one of the most used social media sites in the world. supermarkets). What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years?

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. Today the landscape is very different from 2004. And that certainly wasn’t the case when I moved back here in 2004.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

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. Palantir’s products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets. -A Competitors: Gowalla.

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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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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. But is it the right data? 18 Rob on 08.18.10 Both had to scale up.) The Rails 1.0

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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). Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Entertainment. US & World. Watercooler.

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