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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.

Lean 335
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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) Luckily Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas presents a visual overview of the nine components of a business on one page.

Lean 120
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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.

Marketing 121
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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

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. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

Internet 334
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Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company

Ben's Blog

With these costs radically reduced, companies today deploy 10X as many applications as they did just 10 years ago. The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. This explosion of applications creates a strong need for better integration.

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Should this startup exist? Converting 5W’s into existential justification

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. Where → Why here? Why should you build this startup in your current location?