VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. The base of our industry is weakening.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. 3] In their analysis Golder and Tellis found almost half of the market pioneers (First Movers) in their sample of 500 brands in 50 product categories failed. Product Pioneer. First to sell the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Secondly, developers are more productive. Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. One rule of thumb I learned upon entering the technology industry was that it takes seven years, on average, for new technology to go from laboratory proofs to sellable product.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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Boston Internet Entrepreneur .Net 206

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. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. It was a technical tour de force. iridium satellite network.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The production of cash is highly concentrated in winners; 90 percent of all the cash returns are produced by 10 percent of the exits. Now let’s get back to the business of selling more product and less stock!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

None of those early failures deterred Tony from pursuing more entrepreneurial ventures, culminating in a $265 million sale of his startup Link Exchange, to Microsoft, in 1998. But I was more surprised by Tony’s personal sacrifices early in Zappo’s history (2000).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   The premium for federal employees over private sector employees has increased since 1998 in wages from 36 percent to 58 percent and in total compensation from 70 percent to 100 percent. None of this is new or recent.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The production of cash is highly concentrated in winners; 90 percent of all the cash returns are produced by 10 percent of the exits. Now let’s get back to the business of selling more product and less stock!

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jonathan : How do you go from being a product guy at Google to starting a venture firm, and then all of a sudden overnight you have sixteen billion followers on Twitter. They’re getting the upside of what we continue to become, and so I want us never to be a finished product. Hunter : I try. What’s the question you ask?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. It’s a simple product, maybe many of you are familiar with it already that makes it really easy to basically no longer pay your bills by check. This is because there are a myriad of loan products out there. Jared Hecht: Wonderful.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. Once again, the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble period shows the highest percentage of pricing above the initial filing range – 44% of deals were priced above. What do the data tell us?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Now I don’t get any.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Very few people break their presentations up into a three act structure, introduce products as a three act structure. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): It started in 1997 with his first letter and his last letter in 2000 that came out in 2021. Act three is the resolution.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. In fact, I based myself in Toronto for a couple months over the summer there and did a product launch while I was there. THE POWER OF OUTSOURCING & CREATING YOUR OWN PRODUCT. I went to the U.S.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

You may have a great product or service and great design on your existing site, but you know you could be doing better. Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. The first step in figuring out how to improve conversions is by gathering feedback and analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. In essence users like you probably used many of these products without complete awareness that your computer became a node and was being used to transmit files.

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