Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. The recently announced $5.3B

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Identify the key indicators of a well-designed offline experiment. Popularized in the mid-late 2000’s by the rise of DIY website testing tools like Optimizely, Monetate, and Adobe Target, A/B Testing turned a previously painful and statistically rigorous mathematical process into a comparatively easy method of improving conversion rates.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Now I just need a business model. During this year they.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. We assess each page for a certain set of criteria: Relevancy: does the page meet user expectation – both in terms of content and design? A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Xeligence automatically generates all DM model development and deployment processes. Aerotel Medical Systems. Mce Systems.

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