Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.
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. Rockmelt and the next wave of innovation.
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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.
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 1, 2013
My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. VCs are often happy to pass along your resume and background to their portfolio companies - after all, they are doing them a favor by sending them highly qualified talent. Once this heuristic is complete, you now have your target list.
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Remember the dot com boom between 1995-2000? When you buy a stock of Apple, Alphabet or Amazon, their prices may well be depressed for a period, but it doesn’t stop people buying iPhones, searching or ordering online. Capital allocated to high risk assets should never exceed 5% of a balanced investment portfolio.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 24, 2022
A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. First, we searched for the names of companies that were in a business similar to ours to get an idea of what our name should be like. We chose The Search Party because it resonated with our purpose as a business.
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