VC Cafe
JUNE 26, 2023
In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast.
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rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. You have demand. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. They prove there is demand. Sold to Yahoo! Begin by assessing whether or not this is true. The difference? They did it better.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats.
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