2001 Internet Revenue Software 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
There were startups and a software industry but barely. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991. People were building.
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. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2016
I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive. First and foremost is the fact that Internet ads haven’t been relevant for a very, very long time. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned about revenue recognition. I’ve acknowledged that many times.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. Carpe Diem.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.
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