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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

On top of all this it was considered very bad form not to have at least four additional consecutive quarters of profits after an IPO.) The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did.

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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. So he had adopted Steve’s Lean LaunchPad class and was using The Startup Owner’s Manual as his core text. . ———– The 99%.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My first IPO at Convergent. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. There were a few times in my career I knew at that moment I was watching something profound – (Holding the glass masks of the Z80 microprocessor. First silicon of the MIPS RISC processor.)

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture? What was the difference here?

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. California companies can have specific salary arrangements with salaried employees. Share this: Facebook Email Reddit StumbleUpon. Thanks Casey!

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? M&A, IPO? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How?

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