Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times.
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. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. Startups play in a bigger field.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 11, 2018
3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. You have demand. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. They prove there is demand. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores.
rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
These traits of a software engineer are always in demand by a great number of companies. This isn’t because technical people are flakier or inherently less entrepreneurial; it’s because by definition they have a narrower set of highly in-demand skills. Business people have it tougher.
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.
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. Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing.
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