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

JULY 23, 2013

I have published many of these PR Tips before. There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy.

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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. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. But most of our users were small, individual merchants who saw the Web as an opportunity to build a business.

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