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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

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. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. There was no money train.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. This same risk averse, conserve the cash, VC mindset would return after the 2008 meltdown of the housing market.).

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8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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Is Magento a Good Website Platform?

The Startup Magazine

Magento was developed in 2008 to allow businesses to go live on the internet. Size- Depending on how much revenue you plan on doing as well as the size of your business, you are going to want to put that in your business plan. You would not expect to hear about Magento if you are not in E-commerce. In Conclusion .

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.) Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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Lessons From The Internet Bubble: Growth vs. Profitability

Feld Thoughts

While I’m sure the financial crisis of 2008 was worse for many people, for me it paled in comparison to the misery of this 21-month stretch. I remember the trigger point being a 3/20/2000 article in Barron’s titled Burning Up: Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash — fast. Or something else?”

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! The second part of the year has seen a lower flow of blog posts, but part of my 2008 resolutions are to remedy to this shortfall, so be prepared for a strong 2008.