1998 Acquisition Business Model Internet 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it. Where am I today?
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. In a subscription business, there three to five times would be a really good multiple for that ratio. My name is John Bates.
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