Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. . Seeing Is Believing.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public.
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2017
Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – [link]. Excellent post about agile software development & some pitfalls of agility - [link]. Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – [link]. – [link]. Ask Eric Clapton - [link].
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 22, 2010
For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation. Expo SF (May.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 1, 2013
At the application layer you have a massive shift of on-prem software going SaaS, a trend started over a decade ago with Salesforce but accelerating dramatically in recent years across nearly every software category ( HR – Workday, Marketing – Eloqua, Marketo, Marin Software, ExactTarget, Engineering/IT - Rally Software, ServiceNow).
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