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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.

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7 Strategies To Solve Your Business Problems Faster

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Make sure that you implement a metric with each solution, to prevent the issue from recurring, and check for side effects and follow-on side effects.

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find that entrepreneurs do outscore the general population on learning, enjoyment, sense of purpose and other uplifting metrics. Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. My aim is not to scare anyone. Causes and Remedies.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. We’ve been lucky.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

Valuation 295