2001 Distribution Lean Product 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of that because when we think about how we invest in companies, we’re not thinking about just a product that people want.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”.
The Next Web
AUGUST 6, 2013
There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality. WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks.
Mucker Lab
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Yes, it’s a big risk because the market can turn at any time, but if you believe in your product, and if your customers see the value, stop worrying about VCs.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 26, 2022
We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. I like the get fit and lean in. So there’s a product side and a business side. . That’s not what we do. Jonathan Siddharth .
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