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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. This same risk averse, conserve the cash, VC mindset would return after the 2008 meltdown of the housing market.).

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Campus Culture: Governance Challenges Facing Higher Education Boards

Board Effect

We’ll look at what has changed in governance in higher education post-pandemic and best practices for governance in higher education moving forward. How COVID Has Changed Governance. With these things in mind, we’ll look at a few areas where COVID has forced governance changes at colleges and universities.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

After the dot.com crash in 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008, traditional investors who previously held their shares for the long-term — public pension funds, institutional investors and money managers — are now more interested in short-term gains. Large public companies like Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, etc.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. What follows in this story is pretty laughable: ".venture

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$4 Per Gallon Gas = Energy Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Department of Energy, more than $172 billion dollars of government money was spent on new energy technology between 1961 and 2008, with the bulk of it being used during the 1970s. So, investors held back funds for new technologies, oil companies stood pat and conservation became a four-letter word.

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On Expert Networks, Compliance, the Drunk and the Lamppost

David Teten

" "Because the light is so much better" The US financial regulatory apparatus looks terrible now because of the Madoff scandal (which was not a hedge fund) and the 2008 financial meltdown (caused by the large banks/mortgage companies, bad regulation, quasi-government agencies like Fannie/Freddie, and consumers who took on too much debt).

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide.