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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. 34:30 – 37:00). 40:30 –41:30).

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. Eric Ries : I got to tell you, I have seen so many examples of that kind of thing, where these technologies that we took for granted before or even derided as not especially socially useful, have enabled people to collaborate in unprecedented ways and unprecedented speed.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. March 13, 2009 11:20 PM Urs E. Gattiker said.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. Company: Wolff New Media.