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. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. The result?
Up and Running
JANUARY 27, 2020
There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Both culture and strategy are equally important, require equal amounts of time and development, and you should continually invest in them to ensure your business is successful.
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The Equity Kicker
MAY 6, 2016
Good VCs need to be good forecasters. We need to predict which companies are going to succeed and second guess future trends so we can develop our firms to stay ahead of the curve. cautious in their forecasts. cautious in their forecasts. open minded. sceptical of deterministic theories. embrace complexity. reflective.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
It can be difficult to forecast the future trajectory of publicly listed technology companies, especially in the short term – after all, most of the available information is already capitalized in their current share prices. Take software developers as an example. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2009
My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our business development discussions took longer than planned. Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. We downsized, developed processes and found our groove. We were hot.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur. (If
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il
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