Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. And it may work.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. there’s a big difference between creating things, managing things, and operating things. We were better at creating things and not so good at managing or operating them. …

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” Support.com — On 2.5m

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. They are very hands on.

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