Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. And it may work.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more It’s a start, a work of art. To revolutionize make a change nothing’s strange.
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Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. The system worked in predictable and profitable ways.
Berkonomics
MAY 31, 2018
I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. Oh, the humanity…” Tom insisted, and nothing I could say would stop him from resigning, selling his home, and moving away.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 28, 2011
As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Public Enemy, Fight The Power. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I’m enjoying the diversity of working with 6-7 portfolio teams on a regular basis on strategic issues. Let me explain.
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