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. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. It was early 2000. That was market.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Internet and Online Business. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Create an Inc.com account: Subscribe to Inc.coms Free Newsletters. Franchises.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

They see it as a source of differentiation for them as a company because their less financed competitors can’t afford it (and often their careers are wrapped up in the multi-millions of dollars they’ve spent implementing it). In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. Financing and cash flow. Unless you have an unorthodox business model, Medicare and Medicaid will be your primary source of revenue. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. population.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 4, 2017

With CES in full swing, I have been thinking more about hardware businesses that have a SaaS component for ongoing revenue and support. Just see Internet of S**t for some hilarious tweets. Good examples of this include networked cameras, wifi routers, smart watches, phones (financing or data contracts), readers/tablets, and more.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Because we achieved our most aggressive revenue targets and built a strong community, we realized that we had a broader opportunity to change the world of graphic design. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

No one was catering to the thousands of parents that were taking to the internet instead of the yellow pages or your neighbor’s recommendation. I’ve worked in the finance for over 12 years. I chose publishing because at the time, the Internet was pretty new and I could see the potential for it. Photo Credit: J.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). Let’s assume that the $2 million buys 25% of your company, which is the norm in an equity financing. Your revenue will take longer to ramp then you think.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. Different Economics.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Combined with the passion and guts was an inherent foresight as to the overriding business importance of predictable customers and recurring revenue. Getting out at that peak moment before the emergence of the Internet and video streaming technologies led to the video rental chain's infamous demise and death. And to delegate.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. That is the surface change.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. Image Credit: Gail Levy.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance. I was able to get a company to let me use their license for a percentage of my revenue. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. Instead of watching TV or trolling the internet I thought I'd try my hands at coding. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Internet - $20-60/month. If you work with.NET be prepared to pay $1000-2000 for an MSDN subscription (or if you’re developing a product talk to Bob Walsh , get signed up with Microsoft BizSpark and get the same thing for a few hundred bucks). Smartest thing I have read on the internet all day, well done sir. #8

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Legal Services.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. HubSpot – HubSpot is an Internet marketing suite that integrates with your website to track your online marketing efforts. I have around 2000 emails to verify. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program. Awsome post btw. some real gems.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49 billion, of which $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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