Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. 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. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. IPOs dried up.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

After leaving Razorfish in 2001, Craig spent a year immersed in food, including a stint as a prep cook at Babbo, Mario Batali’s flagship restaurant. Customer input shaped Amper’s product: One of the things that was really important to us was using Lean methodology. ” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. Jessica ran things as lean as she could for the next few months while figuring out what to do. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. Everything disappeared.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

We were probably a little bit arrogant in our thinking of what we could create and how we could lead developers to create these ideas that we have. The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. ” This was around 2001. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet.

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