Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Very rare case.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2019
Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Very rare case.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 6, 2013
Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Very rare case.
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. We were up against a tight deadline where we actually had to invent a business and present to our classmates at school!” Write it down on a napkin.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 31, 2016
Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Very rare case.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 9, 2012
Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Very rare case.
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