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. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x. The internet is working.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

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. For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. Image source ).

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. Eloqua was the proof of that. Data Accessibility.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

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. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Pretty much anywhere you buy items that aren't food, you could probably get them cheaper on the web, with a wider selection. Story is a 2000 square foot retail space with "a point of view" that is part store, part event, rotating on a regular basis to feature different themes. The count is unfortunately high. ATM Locations.

Columbus 140

Columbus Distribution Internet Community 140

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You can use TweetDeck as a web app, Chrome app, or desktop app. You can create your own customizable social media dashboard that allows you to send and receive tweets and manage and monitor your Twitter profiles. TweetDeck can be set to post scheduled tweets, build Tweet lists, and more. And the extra special part is that it’s always free.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Management Social Network 95

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Small Business Web Summit. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Tech-savvy minds, this is the conference for you.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

web address today, go to launchwith.us John Jantsch: You know, I love sharing tips and resources with small business owners and one of them is you’ve got to choose the right web address for your business and it’s gotten harder. web address today. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter.

Flash 74

Flash Software Review Naming Los Angeles 74

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

According to Strangeloop , who tested the load times of the top 2,000 retail websites, web pages keep getting bigger, the average site takes 10 seconds to load. While Jakob Nielsen says people can handle up to 10 second load time , consider this: 47% of people expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. WebPageTest.

Conversion 131

Conversion Caching Hosting Analytics 131

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

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. All this leads to a complex web of interactions that are ripe for intelligent analysis. We are deluged by data and information and this “big data” is only going to proliferate.

Venture Capital 88

Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

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.

Search 60

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

Marc Andreessen and Eric Ries were tweeting how many of 1998-2000 web startup ideas failed but are succeeding now. A distribution relationship? Big market but wrong time vs right time. If a new entrant came into this space today, what’s your moat, your defensible lead? Is there an insight you uniquely have?

Term Sheet 97

Term Sheet Lean Distribution Web 97

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. The consultant’s prediction, 900,000 subscribers, was less than 1% of the actual figure, 109 Million. New Use Cases.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

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. Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? © 2000-2010 Joel Spolsky. Want to know more?

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

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. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Social Networking in Web 1.0: But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0,

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5

Database 236

Database Social Media Global Distribution 236

Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2018

At first, I was obsessed with distributed 3D printing. You start with a 3D image, which you can either design, get from the web, or get from Thingiverse or Pinshape , Formlabs and Glowforge printers then provide the REPL – it reads the 3D code, evaluates it, and prints it. By the end of 2000, they had shipped 50 million of them.

Distribution 25

Distribution Software Technology Programming 25

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? This limits a little bit what we can track in web analytics tools. Pharmaceutical: Humira.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5

Database 188

Database Social Media Global Distribution 188

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. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Database Social Media Global 272

BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Looking at Venturesource, I see that Jamdat was first funded in March 2000 precisely the time when VCs thought wireless was the next big thing. In addition, imagine the competition to get distribution from the carriers-there are lots of little guys knocking on the door. This means you are dependent on the carriers for deals and access.

IPO 60

IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Because that company was Netscape, the company that released the first widely adopted web browser. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. ” Big or small, you could build whatever you wanted on the World Wide Web. Yes, I passed up all that.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

A deployment process (sending code to customers, putting it on web server, etc). (PS Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? © 2000-2012 Joel Spolsky. An implementation process (writing code). A testing process (finding bugs). A debugging process (fixing bugs). PS No, this is not “waterfall.” No it isn’t.

Software Review 85

Software Review Software Database New York City 85

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5

Startup 258

Startup Database Social Media Global 258

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Years ago, before Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) and Kindle became as popular as they are today, Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, offered this insight: Go back in time when we started working on Kindle almost seven years ago. Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000.

Small Business 53

Small Business Startup Global Design 53

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. Web Designer (Req. WSJ Web Slice. What They Know.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78