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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Meebo’s current focus is US market.&#. We then captured this conversation again on camera.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

So what is about the business model that is so successful: Focus on your core target market - The original marketing plan for Bandon Dunes is as simple as they come - "Great golf + great food + great people = marketing plan". They have done a great job of serving the market. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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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. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. In the last year, we’ve seen Social Networks enable new forms of peaceful revolution.

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