2000 2004 Revenue Search 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.
Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2010
They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. The company loses customers, then revenues and profits decline and it eventually gets acquired or goes out of business. . outpace an existing company’s business model.
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YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 5, 2013
The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 18, 2022
Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Brand is your strongest asset.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 4, 2022
One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.
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