Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Most startups following the Product Development Model never achieve their revenue plan and burn through a ton of cash not knowing what hit them. After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. End result?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. venture capital.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Clovis Oncology is set to price a $160 million offering, despite having a whopping $0 in revenue. Also on the docket is Lashou Group, which only reports $16 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2011. And InterMolecular, with $26 million through the first nine months of 2011. companies that will create new jobs in the U.S.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

They used this to win the 1996 election by rallying people who were tired of such a weak, debt ridden economy. ” What about REVENUE and GROWTH and PROFIT and PREDICTABILITY? But eventually Facebook had to make Revenue and Profit. Sound familiar? The Bubble Begins To Pop. million in investment and 18 months of operation.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. In addition to my role as co-chairman of Interliant (Len was my co-chairman), I was also a partner at Mobius Venture Capital, sitting on over 25 boards, including five non-US companies. I was exhausted.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” Once GoToMyPC became a highly successful product, we renamed DesktopStreaming “GoToMeeting,” but not before DesktopStreaming had generated over $30 million dollars of revenue. Venture Capital (7).

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Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The researchers found that in return, this ability caused entrepreneurs to disrupt common patterns in daily life, attracted more customers and created more revenue, causing a cycle of nuanced disruption and adaptation. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money.

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Washington Incubator Cofounder Angel Investor 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

So how do Israeli ventures scale up? To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. Two, revenue. Give us an answer and let’s move on to finding working capital. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital. You heard a little bit from others about that. What do you do?

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