Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

The three stories that the book is most famous for are the “economic bubbles&# specifically, tulip-mania , the South Sea Company bubble and the Mississippi Company bubble. Each of these bubbles was based on irrational exuberance driven by “new rules&# and innovation in the absence of any oversight or regulation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

In the dot-com bubble economy, the investors used an IPO at product launch to take the money and run, before there was a track record of success or failure.) The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.]

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Altgate

JANUARY 2, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged business cycle , startup , venture capital. ← The World Without Altgate There Is Absolutely No Bubble In Technology → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Think about the baseball Steroid scandal, Tour de France doping scandal, housing bubble, etc.) Shortcuts are easy. But besides being morally wrong, in the end they come back to bite you big time. When your employees see that it’s “an anything goes” culture you’ll find unethical behavior occurring that you will regret. Do the right thing.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The enterprise side is stagnant, yet there are cool ideas bubbling up from developers that evetually will land there anyway. c# just shouldn’t be in the picture because it’s tied to one flaky vendor, c++ is a mess, and the toy scripting languages don’t scale.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Preserve your cash: When you have unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climate,) you can iterate on your mistakes by burning more dollars. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

If Rocket Science wasn’t a clear enough lesson in the danger of premature enthusiasm, the dot-com bubble that followed should have been. << (tags: startups) [.] However, when the smoke clears the surviving companies are more than likely the ones that focussed on execution, not on creating a cacophony of press releases.

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Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged layoffs , startup , venture capital. ← There Is Absolutely No Bubble In Technology Top 10 Posts From 2008 → Comments are closed. People are always kinder to someone they know than just names on paper. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] Of course, they could be useful in creating liquidity events, but absent bubbly environment and disrupting marketplace what is the point? This post was Twitted by altgate [.] Lots of ideas sound exciting because people are clueless.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Driving across the U.S.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 27, 2008

Make sure you tag blog posts with a category and then have those categories visible at the top of your blog. If your blog sports the Typepad bubble or the Blogger “e&# it’s the sure sign of a nubie. I say eventually, because in the early days (as in your first year or so) you unlikely to get many comments at all.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. Make sure they are.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

2010 03 /07 CATEGORY Uncategorized TAGS dev shops development getting it built software startups tech themoreyouknow View Comments [link] Victor Wong I would say that if you have a strong development team and need contract developers who can work well remotely and under your project manager, then you can also bring in a development shop.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Bubble I have been saying this Web 2.0 Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things » © 2010 TechCrunch Powered by WordPress.com VIP About Advertise Archives Contact Events Jobs Network Staff.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Too many apps look cute and bubbly but the layout and design are virtually useless. Tags: startupcto. See Also Elegant.ly There is definitely too much"sameness" out there and it is beginning to signify nothing. Time to get back to the basics of building solid apps first, great design later!

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