Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/31/1998: 30.8. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/31/1998: 30.8. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Consider the following: When bellwether players go public (such as Netscape in 1995), there is a massive rush of capital and companies that follow.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/1998: 30.8 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/1998: 30.8

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

a 1988 global bestseller about the rise of Japanese financial power; Road Warriors, a 1995 book about the birth of digital media and the Internet; Big Dragon, a 1998 book about China’s future; Secrets of the Code; a 2004 guidebook to the Da Vinci Code that was on the New York Times bestseller list for six months; Blog!

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. Think about that.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. After graduating from the ACL in London, he began his career in financial markets in 1995 as an equity and portfolio manager at Standard & Poor in London, taking up further posts at Alfred Berg/ABN AMRO in Moscow and PBS in Switzerland.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

UC-Berkeley’s AnnaLee Saxenian documented that 7% of tech companies started in 1980–1998 had an Indian founder. from 1995 to 2005. He later says: “ Thirty years ago, there were hardly any Silicon Valley firms with Indian-born founders. My team also determined that in this period, Indians started 6.7%

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3) billion, as the company has successfully “grown into its valuation” and become the leading in the content delivery market). .  3)      Life sciences.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. 1995 ; De Lange et al., 1983 ; Burt, 1959 ; Weildon, 1995 ) but these have been soundly criticised on points of methodology. 1998 , Tullis et al.,

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. Since I couldnt bear the thought of programming in another language (this was 1995,remember, when "another language" meant C++) the only option seemedto be to start a new company using Lisp. We were a company whose wholem.o.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

When people [00:12:59] customer centric company, talked about this you know in [00:13:03] 1995, this was his approach. How do I turn those into insights? And that is one of the things that Jeff [00:12:56] has taken from day one. It wasn’t that he was trying to be warm and fuzzy because he’s not that warm and fuzzy kind of guy.

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