Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
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. They compete on features, price and execution. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.
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ConversionXL
JANUARY 18, 2022
Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. There have never been more brands competing for attention than there are right now. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.
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. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.
Eric Friedman
JANUARY 4, 2017
non-required component to get a 7 day history of content the camera collects. Just see Internet of S**t for some hilarious tweets. Can a locked in monthly SaaS fee cover the business model needs of a new startup to compete with a large hardware co? that is definitely now “in the green” because of my 2+ years subscription.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Furthermore, O’Reilly’s own examples demonstrate the difference between a blitzscalable and non-blitzscalable market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.
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