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.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 5, 2013
Quantification : the measurement of various benchmarks from number of customers, time of visits, products purchased, to revenue; and. ” Employing the disciplines of Innovation, Quantification and Orchestration, one should then build one’s business by skillfully mixing and baking the following ingredients: 1.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.
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. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The New Exits.
Occam's Razor
JUNE 4, 2018
Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Yes, from 1995! Significantly higher revenue awaits.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2019
The Financial Times has been using a similar model for years. Old Media Models Are Melting Down. We’re now in the midst of a meltdown of the old media business models. One way to sidestep the loss of revenue is to aggregate more eyeballs. And in that, there is value. A lot of eyeballs.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market.
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