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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

They either had a portfolio company in market and weren’t getting offers as quickly as expected or they knew a friend in the biz who was recounting this to them in a session VCs strangely call “comparing notes.”. Here are some stats to give you a sense: • Year over year revenue grew 51% in 2015 and we’re forecasting the same again for 2016.