Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. . —– When I came to U.C. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Their venture investors made money by selling their share of these successful companies at a large multiple over what they originally paid for it. This was the beginning of the 5-year dot-com bubble.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

As one of the first women VC’s in Silicon Valley she founded Foundation in 1995, and went on to be selected for the Midas List based on her investments. Kathryn Gould is the co-founder of the VC firm, Foundation Capital and the owner of Battle Mountain Vineyard.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. So I started Foundation Capital in 1995. Help people with their careers, their ideas, contacts—and I’m serious, good things come back years later. I also learned that the first time without a paycheck is a little scary. Find Your Obession. That might be neat.

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