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.
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
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.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. So we simply went too fast and didn’t anticipate how devoted some people still were to that part of our business. Most businesses, like Kodak or Blockbuster, go out of business when confronted with a radical new business model.
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.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2019
by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. Old Media Models Are Melting Down.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.
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