Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 3, 2020
My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road. In 1995, at the dawn of the age of the commercial Internet, this involved landlines, answering machines, pagers, and fax machines. For many years, this was a function of travel.
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The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
It was just such a joy to develop things. Then in 1991 I came up with a product for developers that turned out to be important enough to build a company around. In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. How can we optimize for global distribution. You’ve IPOed two companies.
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.
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.
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2017
Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Not a chance. For Meebo 1.3%
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