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. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
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!). If you don’t address it they’re minds are shaped by competitor PR. Don’t underestimate the impact of good PR on your competitors. We do hand out stock options. We were hot.
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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.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 1, 2012
Facebook’s stock should trade for $13.80 – [link]. Stunning Graphic Design Styles: 1950 to 2000 Inspired Designs – [link]. Good chart from Mary Meeker showing % of time spent in media vs. ad spending in same medium - [link]. ‘Facebook parenting’ is destroying our children’s privacy - [link].
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
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. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. The 2011 Top Lists.
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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it. SecondMarket , SharesPost , etc.).
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