Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. 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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure.

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