1995 Government Hiring Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
The billion dollars he just raised is on top of the $750 million NewTV’s parent company, WndrCo, has raised for the venture. He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent.
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. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.
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Reid Hoffman
MAY 16, 2020
The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. They hire local employees or family. As they can’t provide the scale to attract venture capital, they fund their businesses via friends/family or small business loans. They attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). According to the company, GMV for 2017 was an impressive $150 million, followed by an astounding $600 million in 2018.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.
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