Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Carpe Diem.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. The rest is history!

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet.

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