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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

Equally, an app developer that specialises for example in iPhone apps may not grasp the different design patterns for Android or properly leverage that device’s operating system. Instead the needs of your users and your business could be met via an app that is accessed using the phone’s internet browser. encounters delays.

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Lessons From The Internet Bubble: Growth vs. Profitability

Feld Thoughts

Between the spring of 2000 and the end of 2001, I had the worst, most stressful, and most painful business period of my life. I remember the trigger point being a 3/20/2000 article in Barron’s titled Burning Up: Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash — fast. They are both worth reading right now.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Carpe Diem. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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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. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.

Berkonomics

Since in most cases, there was no revenue in many of these companies, all trying to gain market share at any cost, we had to invent the metric to use. Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00

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Not disruptive, and proud of it

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. billion market cap), mid-sized (NetBotz with millions in revenue and funding), and small (sub-$1m operations like us). Their technology proved superior, but "a better search engine" was hardly a new idea.