Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They bought distribution and engineering talent. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). There is also another inherent weakness. Twitter bough their most used iPhone client.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. I always loved languages.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Cuba Haiti Technical Review 97

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. As part of this agreement, SailPoint also assumed responsibility for the Control-SA engineering and support team.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Most products are built by engineers and product people, and they are often uncomfortable cold calling customers to get meetings for early feedback.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day. Completely necessary.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. You can read more about it here.

Search 60

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. Data on its own is meaningless, and can create more challenges than benefits, unless it can be quickly be parsed, analyzed and distributed to relevant entities.

Venture Capital 88

Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. But it’s a real phenomenon. You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video. 406 Ventures.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current.

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

You assign an annual quota to each rep, train them, feed them some sales tools and assign them a sales engineer (particularly for more technically complex products) and coach them along the way. Find a new sales rep with industry experience, a rolodex and a strong track record.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 275

Merger Analytics Open Source America 275

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Memcached is an open source high-performance distributed memory object caching system intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Pretty useful stuff. Plug’n''play.

Conversion 131

Conversion Caching Hosting Analytics 131

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 433

Merger Analytics Open Source America 433

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2011

Culled from Google Books, it contains more than five million books published between 1800 and 2000—at a rough estimate, 4 percent of all books ever published—of which two-thirds are in English and the others distributed among Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish.

Database 39

Database Distribution Search Engineer 39

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 276

Merger Analytics Open Source America 276

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion.

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

There are millions of chess players in the world, and I believe the vast majority of serious players know their ELO ranking and also know exactly what it means to be 1000, 1500, or 2000. Just need to graph out the distribution curve of feedback and grade people according to a standard deviation. People should be graded on a curve.

Software Review 60

Software Review Software Developers Software Development Search 60

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Our High-End Conversion Engine Framework , which illustrates the basic needs of a high-end ecommerce store. The most common example of distribution and information based scarcity used in luxury is one most brands should implement without exception: the “limited quantities available” message. Forget pricing tactics. Image source.

eCommerce 125

eCommerce Conversion Sales Technical Review 125

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 239

Merger Entrepreneur Analytics Open Source 239

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 120

Merger Analytics Open Source America 120

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. The news media described it as a second gold rush.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 235

Merger Analytics Open Source America 235

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Personal Technology. What They Know. All Things Digital.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 First, a handy chart to highlight the top 20 reasons for failure followed by an explanation of each reason and relevant examples from the the post-mortems. During this year they.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89