Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Product Pioneer.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Ron Conway, known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley and part of SV Angel, came to Campbell to talk some shop, angel investing. In 1999, 80% of the portfolio went out of business with him commenting, “Thank G*d we invested in Google” SV Angel investing priority is 1) idea, 2) people, then 3) market size.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market. 1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased. No one was ever going to buy music again.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Because he’s a staunch believer in working with those that solve a problem – not necessarily a big problem, but a problem that has a market – we’re going to assume most of those startups exhibited this characteristic. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

But it wasn’t until 1998 that corporate-backed VC firms could be established, and that started a wave of VC funds backed by government, corporate and foreign capital. The market was created to provide startups and their investors liquidity. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The goals were “first mover advantage,” “grab market share” and “get big fast.”

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. years in 1998 to 9.6 The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5 years as of year-end 2008. years over the same time frame.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

But it wasn’t until 1998 that corporate-backed VC firms could be established, and that started a wave of VC funds backed by government, corporate and foreign capital. The market was created to provide startups and their investors liquidity. Lessons Learned.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” This adaptability is critical in the early stages of building a great company.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

These Go-Getters have been instrumental catalysts in educating fellow small business owners in the innovative Get Different marketing system. Michael Buzinski, President & CMO of Buzzworthy Website Marketing , is a lifelong entrepreneur, digital marketing thought leader, best-selling author, and US Air Force Veteran.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. Resegmenting an Existing Market. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

billion acquisition of Nest , a Silicon Valley based company that sells “smart” thermostats and smoke detectors: - Build vs Buy: Even for a company with significant resources such as Google, it is difficult to innovate beyond core products. A few observations from the just announced Google $3.2

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Their firsthand knowledge of creating new businesses and new markets seemed quite relevant to successfully investing in other entrepreneurs working to do the same. Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. The best estimate of overall angel investor returns from this data is 2.5

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

In essense, let the market design the product. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer. silicon valleys. We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

In Silicon Valley many people treat the concept that “ideas are worthless, it’s all about execution” as gospel. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there’s no market for startup ideas suggests there’s no demand. This has always sounded illogical to me. Patent number 5771354.

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Diego Basch

JULY 1, 2014

In a previous post I mentioned an interview I had at Netscape in 1998. It was my first encounter with the “creative minds of Silicon Valley” in their natural environment. One manager talked about how they were a bit bummed because Yahoo had just surpassed their market valuation. During lunch came another red flag.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Their firsthand knowledge of creating new businesses and new markets seemed quite relevant to successfully investing in other entrepreneurs working to do the same. Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. The best estimate of overall angel investor returns from this data is 2.5

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2016

(girl scout song believed to be adapted from poem written by Joseph Parry (1841-1903) or perhaps Boardwalk Empire if you believe Reddit ) In the picture above, "Make New Friends" was sung by the entire Barron Park Elementary School on its first day as a neighborhood school in 1998. A fitting song for a new school year and new school.

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Professor VC

MAY 7, 2013

My Original Mobile Email Device My love affair with RIM started with my first blackberry I purchased in 1998 - the fat pager pictured above. With a dwindling market base, nobody is going to develp on the platform, which is a death knell for anyone in the smartphone business. That was the final straw!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. 5) Market Downturn. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century. That’s massive. 7) My Blood.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carmine Gallo. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carmine Gallo. Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? Connect with Carmine on LinkedIn.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Market Movers. Marketing jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We are also seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street. Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Common reason for failure: omitting this step altogether and deploying employment branding and recruitment marketing to channels that are easiest to deploy to. Sadly, the user system that has powered our website since 1998 no longer plays nicely with todays technology. Become a fan of ERE.net on Facebook. Follow ERE.net on LinkedIn.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Jared Hecht: Wonderful. Bates: You know Josh—.

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Diego Basch

MAY 25, 2011

He was referring to the time back in 1998 when I built an mp3 search engine in C, hosted it on my desktop computer, promoted it until it reached 200k daily queries, and made six figures out of it (all in a matter of months). Because you don’t have deep pockets you’ll have to resort to guerrilla marketing tactics.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. There is an ongoing debate between investors whichis more important, the people, or the idea—or more precisely,the market. Whereas Marc Andreessen says hed back ok founders in ahot market over great founders in a bad one. [ Suppose its 1998.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

A’s were able to win games cheaply by buying the qualities in a baseball player that the market undervalues, and selling the ones that the market overvalues. Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. Evidence based marketing is here to stay.

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