Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. Know when to run. Kenny Rogers – The Gambler.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2012

In the 1990’s and early 2000’s it was “You got mail” as made famous by the AOL advertising stable. It might seem like fun and games as in the social media stock market “ Empire Avenue.” Social media influence and “credibility” are of increasing importance. ” Or do you? So, what should you do?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. The clean, the inventory room, stock everything correctly. You can grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with some rush from content and SEO to ads and social media. And so we get feedback, oh, this is what's working.

Employee 91

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue.

Technical Review 48

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

The second strategy is Value Investing , a strategy which “seeks to maximize returns by finding stocks that are undervalued by the market…Investors assess a stock’s intrinsic value…and compare that value with the stock price. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) But the media only focuses on the winners. .

Venture Capital 60

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. Social Media Marketing. Social media marketing attempts to leverage the power of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and others) to promote a product or service. The company folded shortly after the ad aired.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Most people don’t know that Zappos had a very turbulent history when it was founded, or about the many personal sacrifices that Tony Hsieh (and early Zappos employees made) to help Zappos achieve such extraordinary success and $1 billion dollars in revenues in fewer than 10 years.

Social Media 93

Social Media Differentiation Stock Small Business 93

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. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Gross Profit. $(60).

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. You’ll see my pet peeves about what media entities don’t measure in this cluster of recommendations…. Stock Photography: Shutterstock.

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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. Would that be perceived as “better enough” to get them to change their media consumption behavior?

Product 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better? Go get them.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

As a marketer, one of your constant jobs is finding the right marketing mix: The right media. If you get the media right and the traffic is relevant (i.e. If you use cheesy stock photography —like customer service people with headsets or suits shaking hands—the rest of your site probably sucks, too. What to say; The right offer.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

Social Network 318

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

In our case, we’ve evolved from a company that developed the first software to graphically represent business processes in the 1990s, to a collaborative enterprise architecture tool in the 2000’s, and finally, to a social, web-based communication platform that includes integrated social media tools today. Pay Attention to the Trends.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2012

As a marketer, one of your constant jobs is to find the right marketing mix: the right media (where to advertise / promote – free or paid), the right message (what do you say?), If you get the media right and the traffic is relevant (e.g. social media follow (Twitter, Facebook etc). the right offer (how much $$$ for what).

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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. .”). Look at how many idiots think they know stocks, or programming, or even business.

Software Review 79

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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. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Once you’ve done that – then.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. Stock Quotes. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Management.

Venture Capital 107

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, a couple of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley created a company to develop an iPhone social-media app. Eighteen months later, they sold the company to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock. Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues.

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Silicon Valley Business Plan Stock America 96

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s. You created the longterm stock exchange.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. Going public is not easy : companies should be preparing for IPO in terms of media communication and internal management over a year ahead of IPO. Poor communication with investors can lead to being mis-valued as a stock.

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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. a leader in personalized media, for $295 million. ValueClick Inc. Share/Bookmark.

China 90

China Cofounder India 90

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. There is no E in the P/E.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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