Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. In US Social Tends for 2021 , an eMarketer report claims that the all social media in 2021 is pointing to one direction – video. Consumer trends 2021 prediction bingo by Visual Capitalist.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. My first IPO at Convergent.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 6, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
Initial Public Offering (IPO). This happened when Google bought YouTube, seamlessly integrating the video platform into their own search product. Now, when you google a topic, you will often notice that videos appear on your search result page. Types of exit strategies. We will cover them in more depth below: Acquisition.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. Now Netflix offers video streaming in 41 countries around the world. You’ve IPOed two companies. Doing an IPO can be a great thing, but there are always consequences.
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