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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

Here are four critical questions to ask both yourself and an app developer before making the decision to engage them to design and deliver your app. 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.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. I’m not paranoid, but I’m not going to post trade secrets on the Internet. How we’ve designed and started to scale the sales team. Some of it is algorithmic.

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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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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). WordPress was typically used by Web designers who learned to code or by self-taught developers.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. .