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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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. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.)

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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. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Our names. 3- My name+services we offer. The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. 2- Latin words.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

As a company that has revolutionized the online appointment scheduling industry, Schedulicity understands the importance of having a strong web presence and how it can translate into a successful business. Be cautious when choosing the name of a professional Facebook page. Once a page has more than 30 fans, the name cannot be changed.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You see, I was using the name Web Informant for sending out a series of email newsletters, and I have been doing so since 1995. A year or so later, a publishing firm who had (blank) Informant as their titles wanted to come out with a print version using Web Informant. Including the trademark registration.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

But have no doubt the other 3 senses will arrive on the web. To give us just a little bit of belief the ‘fantastical statement’ above this about : Only a decade or so ago a printer was a guy name Tony in who had a little factory Ringwood. Web enabled – of course. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Walmart has long been a top name in US retail. But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Let’s get started.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. I worked in Rome on a small team with a really smart young woman named Elisabetta. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. My brand was “business guy.”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Why the name?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2015

follows what is called the EU Data Protection Directive 1995, which sets out seven principles of data collection: Notice: Users should be given notice when their data is being collected. Web forms will also be collecting user data, and if you use something like Google Analytics, even more data will be gathered behind the scenes.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Smart content providers realized they could - indeed had to - move to the nascent web. And over time more users would migrate to an open web entry point. Web browsers became the primary presentation layers, not the ISPs. Others failed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? Consistency starts with strong branding, including the company name and logo design , and continues with delivering on your brand’s promises. everyone can agree that a new generational cohort has arrived on the scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? Consistency starts with strong branding, including the company name and logo design , and continues with delivering on your brand’s promises. everyone can agree that a new generational cohort has arrived on the scene.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

In addition, SecondMarket was named one of the Top Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know by BusinessWeek and recognized by Fast Company as one of eight startups "brimming with hope" for the financial industry. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Our name came from very humble origins. Not knowing anyone’s name I naturally waved to everyone that walked or drove by.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. I thought Id just go with a simple blog name like Steve Bennet, but wasnt available on Blogger so I had to come up with something else.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

We named Jeff CEO of LinkedIn in the middle of 2009, about four years after I first approached David Sze about replacing myself. Dick wasn’t named CEO until 2010, four years after the company’s official start. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Web Designer (Req. Your question to the Journal Community Your comments on articles will show your real name and not a username. Why use your real name? WSJ Web Slice.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. In addition to the unprecedented number of people now reachable via the Internet, we are at the very beginning a gargantuan new technology cycle: the move from Web/PC computing to cloud and mobile. If you think that, you’d be wrong again.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In operation since 1995, AltaVista is one of the web’s search trailblazers, and is still in operation today. For those of us who were around in the wild days of the internet’s infancy, the fact that the familiar name is still an existing entity might come as a surprise. DuckDuckGo. MetaCrawler.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Snaptu’s technology, which works on more than 2,500 different mobile devices, is designed to bring web service such as Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn to almost any phone through a series of applications it has designed. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. 1995 ; De Lange et al., 1983 ; Burt, 1959 ; Weildon, 1995 ) but these have been soundly criticised on points of methodology.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Well, to be honest, it wasn’t much of a business plan, because in 1995, I knew next to nothing about ‘business’ After reading an article about how critical it was to have one, I put pen to paper and jotted down some notes to myself. And each time, I noticed the same familiar names in my inbox. My first raving fans!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Well, to be honest, it wasn’t much of a business plan, because in 1995, I knew next to nothing about ‘business’ After reading an article about how critical it was to have one, I put pen to paper and jotted down some notes to myself. And each time, I noticed the same familiar names in my inbox. My first raving fans!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

One of my first investments, when I moved to Boulder in 1995, was in a company called Email Publishing, which was the very first email service provider. The beauty, and brilliance, of the web, started to become the walled garden of Facebook. One of our themes is Protocol. SMTP has been very good to me. Time passed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

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