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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 1995 ; De Lange et al., Alex Poole. User experience design and research. Site français. Skip to content.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. Now, on to my predictions for 2011: __.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. Metrics are defined as a standard of measurement.

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