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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.

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

Steve Blank

Version 1 was built without customer feedback, and before version 1 was complete work had already started on version 2 so it took till version 3 before the customer was really heard (e.g. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

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. Startups could now get a first version of a product out to customers in weeks/months rather than months/years.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They bought distribution and engineering talent. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. There is also another inherent weakness. No big surprise. Good deal for all.

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.