Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Carpe Diem.

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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. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. In some Venture Capital firms they may share the same roof and overhead, but no one is confused, they’re in very different businesses.). Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Board Control. The founders.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. Theyre not something you couldhand to someone else to execute.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Real time web usage outpaces business models. In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. Putting fun into ecommerce.

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