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. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. They were locking in value before the currency depreciated further, converting cash and credit into hard commodities like groceries, appliances and other things they could stock up on. Stocking up is the traditional way of converting cash into commodities.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Precept Software, another of her startups, was bought by Cisco just prior to the company's stock price run-up, "so we had a great outcome for our investors.".

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

But when I felt as if I was under assault in my position as an account executive and global account manager for the largest oil company in the world, I knew I had to do something for myself and my family’s well-being. . When 9/11 happened, we had finished our most profitable year in 2000. I became an entrepreneur. . until 2 p.m.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Our oceans are regularly overfished, nearly 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited , overexploited or depleted. What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

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. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The world is slowing turning into a global village and the level of telecommunication technology is escalating daily. This gives it the ability to control this industry effectively and so are its stocks and shares. The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. And GTE Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. The great promise of the Internet was the ability to break down barriers and allow you to sell products and services globally, benefitting buyer and seller.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. With this milestone, Europe has clearly established itself as a key center for software innovation in the world.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Here is a telling statement from an analyst on Apple’s most recent quarter: Apple’s stock price to earnings ratio has dropped to 16.72. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Ex-cash it’s 13.5. On a forward basis (my estimates) it’s 8.3. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x.

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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. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . That exodus has already begun, and it is evident in many statistics that testify to America’s slipping global competitiveness since 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox claims it is already profitable and that the proceeds of this round will be used to expand its sales and marketing efforts globally. Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel. JVP’s Qlik stock generate $112 million. The company has raised $46 million to date. JVP holds a 14.5

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

million subscribers globally, Netflix may overtake viewer numbers from the major television networks by 2016. Netflix shares have doubled this year, culminating with a 7 for 1 stock split yesterday. With over 65.5 Netflix focuses on customer experience metrics.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. The answer is, they couldn't make any money trading, [or on] giving analyst support for small stocks because the spread got too small.". When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Eighteen months later, they sold the company to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there were hundreds of brands of personal computers introduced in the American market.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

annually for the period 1982-1999, has since 2000 slowed to a mere 1.8%. Not coincidentally, in that same period stock market returns have declined dramatically. Here are actions that smart entrepreneurs and investors can take today to “break out” and attain well above average results and returns: Think and Act Globally.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 stock market." stock market." Are we in a bubble?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

. “Having shown an excellent track record in weathering the most recent crisis via timely monetary and fiscal policy responses, the country earned well deserved respect and confidence among global investors,&# the bank said. FDI IN ISRAEL IN JUNE RISES ABOVE MONTHLY AVERAGE. The majority of investments were made in the high tech sector.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. Facebook went public in May with two classes of stock that give founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about 57% of the voting power even though he only owns about 28% of the shares. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. Global Support. MarketWatch.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 17, 2017

If you’re making computers costing $500 in parts and need to have 5 stocked in each of 2000 stores globally, then you’ve spent $5 million (on parts) out of your pocket that you won’t see until ages later when all those computers are [hopefully] sold. 1] Manufacturers are also long familiar with this idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Before jumping into the list, let’s have a quick look at what’s been a very special year in many ways for the cloud ecosystem globally and in Europe. Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. At the time, we had 250,000 employees and 2000 stores and before we were done, the culture of Home Depot had, I'll call it, the foundation had been riveted even deeper than ever and built to last in how to serve customers. Yes, we’d like that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. And it was amazing how global travel was halted. Airbnb- Eric Ries : Airbnb was founded during a global recession. What if it works?

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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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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. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

In 2000, the 22,000 people on staff at Enron could be proud: they were spending their days at one of Fortune ‘s “100 Best Companies to Work For in America.” Ripe with satire, sight gags, and symbolism, this film’s got to make you wonder what other cheap bets stock brokers make that cost them $400 million in the end.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Huobi, the world’s third-largest crypto exchange, acquired a public company ahead of what many think will be a reverse public listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The writer would have probably written a similar piece about the internet in 2000. Complete Newsletter linked here: The FPV Blockchain Weekly #28, August 31, 2018.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! How did Akamai do it? . .

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. Remember, it wasn’t a straight line between 1995 and 2000 – there were a series of macroeconomic crises on the domestic front, such as a near government shutdown (sound familiar?)

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Publications (in German) were: Wendt, Dirk (1970): Zur Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften (On the legibility of print), Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 70 (13), p 417-418, and in more detail: Wendt, Dirk (2000): Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften. Pingback: Using Typography to Your Advantage | Pros Global TV.

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