Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. Carpe Diem. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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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. The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. some founders lose their life savings.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002.

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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!). As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were hot.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Advertising.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Any stock grants you issue have to qualify for exemption under state and federal securities laws. Leadership. Strategy and Planning.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Early internet technology was groundbreaking, but decentralized currency is truly revolutionary. Perceived bubbles are funny: They can propel even the worst companies to the top of the stock charts. In November 2000, an index of 280 internet stocks was down by $1.7 Finding footing on shaky ground.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. How the industry was growing around the company.

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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. As the company grows, the initial package of stock options offered to new hires will be lower and lower.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

By Rob Nelson, Founder and CEO at Grow. Netflix shares have doubled this year, culminating with a 7 for 1 stock split yesterday. In 2000, three years after Netflix launched DVD rental services, Netflix used customer data and ratings from their movie recommendation system to predict content choices for all Netflix members.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

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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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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. By this time there were not one but four million registered users.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Stock Quotes. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney. AllThingsDigital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 They believe that stock picking is the most important function they can play. I want to challenge the founders view. That’s normal. It’s a market, after all. hours / day. I call often.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Successful private companies such as Facebook and Zynga now have active secondary markets in their stock, blurring the meaning of their ‘private’ status. Confirmed Panelists David Weild, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market (moderator) Barry Silbert, CEO, Secondmarket. the 1990s.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

France has proven its ability to develop innovative internet models Over the past three years, we have invested over $60 million in French technology start-ups with Showroomprive (number 2 in Europe for online private sales), BlaBlaCar ( Covoiturage.fr Is this the “social justice” announced by the government?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

But stock indexes continue to slide and the unemployment numbers are getting worse. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research the U.S.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. So I didn't put a lot of stock into that. It started in 1997 with his first letter and his last letter in 2000 that came out in 2021. Don't look at it as a mission.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 63

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. Thanks guys!) Amen to this topic!

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? The way I do it.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder? They’re building them for the world.

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Global Europe France Cofounder 62

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Net foreign investment in stocks traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) totaled $440 million in June, 9% higher than in May, and well above the $240 million monthly average recorded during the first six months of the year. ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. ValueClick Inc. Share/Bookmark.

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