Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. IMVU learned to learn. Please do try this at home.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107