2001 2011 Global Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals.
genylabs.typepad.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals.
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