2000 Distribution Revenue Valuation 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.
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. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
If they have, then we should be able to see some evidence that the dominant public technology companies are moving towards bubble valuations. Apple’s valuation is now a case for business historians to discuss because I don’t think there are modern precedents. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.
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
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.
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