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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. Goldman Sachs (an investor in our company) told us we’d IPO within 18 months for $1 billion so not to take any offers. We were hot.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

It can be difficult to forecast the future trajectory of publicly listed technology companies, especially in the short term – after all, most of the available information is already capitalized in their current share prices. In 2000, the company had slightly more than 22,000 workers in the United States and nearly 30,000 workers overseas.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur. (If Step 2: Forecast the linear trend. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Crowdfunding Your Startup with MicroVentures

ReadWriteStart

MicroVentures isn't disclosing a lot of details about the first three deals that it's funded, but it says that these ranged from $2000 to $25,000 increments, with the average investment roughly $5000. MicroVentures does the due diligence for investors, running a variety of checks on financials, forecasts, use of funds, burn rate and so on.

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5 Ways to Prevent Downtime in Your Manufacturing Business

The Startup Magazine

Around 80% of all major power outages that occurred from 2000 to 2023 were caused by weather. Leverage Predictive Analytics By analyzing historical data and identifying patterns, predictive analytics can forecast potential equipment failures before they occur.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe says that the Israeli economy is in good shape and has momentum, yet has a cloudy forecast ahead of it. At the beginning of the year 2000, there were 133 venture capital firms in Israel, today there are less than 30. emphasis mine] In the last 15 years, the Israel economy didn’t succeed to make many companies like this.

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