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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. When VC’s realized how eager the public markets were for anything related to the internet, they pushed startups with little revenue and no profits into IPOs as fast as they could.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

These included the PC, mobile phone, the internet, and MRI imaging. Propensity to “lean in” before being told how to act. An employee of Sun Microsystems, James Gosling, created a new object-oriented programming language called Oak in 1995. any organization, no matter what the size.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. First, my students are confused about who to talk to and how to think about funding their consumer internet startups.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

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 world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Carpe Diem.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

The software allowed for us to stay lean while increasing our value. After English speakers, Mandarin, Spanish, and Arabic speakers are the biggest users of the Internet. As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. Benji Rabhan , ConversionCore. Sponsored content.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick

Steve Blank

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. Customer input shaped Amper’s product: One of the things that was really important to us was using Lean methodology. We … ended up doing it before we knew what Lean was… .