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. Smart companies are always looking to make their current products better – and there are many ways to do this. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . 3) Exchanges + HFTs. synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. These are very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. 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. The Exit Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

” Turning to solutions, the authors make a compelling case for an open-source approach to creating an immunization system for U.S. The problem is not foreign sourcing; it is ensuring that foreign-made products are authentic and secure.” is following. soil can provide 100% assurance. “ WESLEY K.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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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. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

" Web 1999/2000. LAMP, open source, Intel, clusters, JBOD. Open, APIs and data sharing. Building product, marketing $ to acquire users. I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." Critical Mass.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. September 10, 2009 4:37 AM Dale B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! million in costs over 18 months to launch our products.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. One rule of thumb I learned upon entering the technology industry was that it takes seven years, on average, for new technology to go from laboratory proofs to sellable product.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. Conclusions Developers of a new technology naturally want to develop a high-quality product. But the success of a new technology depends on a multitude of factors beyond its technical quality.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

What we didn’t account for was the magnitude of the current correction and the effect that it would have on discretionary luxury spending even within a population that financially could still afford our product. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

Yes their desktop products acquired from Ximian and SuSE are immature and resemble a server trying to become a desktop OS. But let’s face it, Novell’s strategy is to ride the Linux wave by offering a complete enterprise stack which includes server, messaging, access control and eventually desktop.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. Jonathan Schwartz has a great post on why Sun went open source and why free does not mean less revenue but more revenue.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

eXpireTrack – Track and plan for the date that products are to expire. Gretastudio – Create on-demand presentations for your company’s products, record training and e-learning materials, or other types of presentations that require audio or video content. clickbook – A free online booking and scheduling program.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. My original post discussed marketing and selling a software product, where achieving $2500/month in revenue is quite a task. #16

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: Yeah. So that’s how it started. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky , to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. Alon: a lot :).

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