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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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Yes, that additional $6 mil is not as hard to accomplished for an imaginative focused team – in fact you can get that from implementing half of the recommendations in this blog post. Yes, from 1995! Yes, from 1995! Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Life of current price.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. So in that context let me use it.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

At that time, I had built my own social media following into the thousands (before the days of all the countless blogs on social media were created). I started my personal blog and my youtube channel to share my love of fashion, photography, and personal style. Thanks to Ruth A. Wilson, Brightmont Academy ! #15

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. This course provides a step-by-step guide to getting anything to catch on.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. This course provides a step-by-step guide to getting anything to catch on.”

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

In 1995, at the dawn of the age of the commercial Internet, this involved landlines, answering machines, pagers, and fax machines. In a moment of delicious self-reference, Zapier put up a blog post titled 25+ Fully Remote Companies That Let You Work From Anywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This concept promotes the idea that any brand's image -- and resulting success -- is achieved more effectively through the osmosis of pervasive blog buzz and tweet-trending than traditional marketing methods. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. Osmosis marketing.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

By Mr Blank’s bubble indicators—some private valuations going up, some sunny reporting, more traffic in Silicon Valley and some venture capitalists doing stupid stuff—the “mania phase&# of the last bubble surely started in August of 1995, at the point of the Netscape IPO. It is also a bad idea now. It is also a bad idea now.

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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

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I was excited at the power and reach of the World Wide Web at a very early stage in its evolution, way back in 1995 – and so could tap into it. Related Posts: Think, Write, Retire: An interview with Dr. Mani The problem with simply following your heart… Gatecrashing into someone’s heart… How do I become better at blogging?

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2018

Dave Jilk turned me on to it when I was a freshman (he was a senior) and from 1983 to 1995 I read almost every issue cover to cover. When a company we are investors in is raising a new round of financing, I’m not allowed to even write a blog post about the financing, let alone run an advertisement about it.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Some things for them to consider: Don’t wait to begin using social media… tools such as Facebook, blogs, Twitter and/or online tools Schedulicity. He then joined his 3 brothers to launch the national expansion of Nettworth Financial Group in 1995 which today manages over $1 billion in assets nationwide.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2017

And according to Levy, Pixar’s success in 1995 was a result of the company’s adoption of its own Middle Way. When she is not maintaining the social media accounts for the company, she is creating content for their blog. Every company wants to be up on that bandwagon, for fear of being left behind.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 20, 2010

I promise not to turn this blog into a personal self-help blog! By the summer of 1995 I was living and working in Rome, Italy. And thus the reason for today’s blog. And I’m grateful to have a wife who doesn’t bust my chops when I start writing blog posts as 10.30pm in the evening as I so often do.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Joanne is awesome – if you don’t read her blog, you should start right now, especially if you are interested in NY entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs, food, and the thoughts of an amazing woman. I still remember meeting her for the first time around 1995 and thinking how dynamite she was.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The percentage of total bank business loans that go to small businesses is in a steady decline, from over 50% in 1995, to under 30% in 2012. The post 3 Hurdles to Getting a Bank Loan and How to Overcome Them appeared first on Bplans Blog. While it is harder than ever for small businesses to get a bank loan, it’s not impossible.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Of course this is hindsight-based armchair speculation, easy to do from the comfort of a blog post.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But this blog, all 801 posts of it, has moved from its old home here at upandrunning.entrepreneur.com to its new place at upandrunning.bplans.com. This blog, however, which started in August of 2007 at entrepreneur.com and has 801 posts since then, is moving there today. No, I’m not breaking up with entrepreneur.com.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But this blog, all 801 posts of it, has moved from its old home at upandrunning.entrepreneur.com to its new place here at bplans.com. It’s different from my main blog at Planning Startups Stories because it is more focused on starting, running, and growing a business. Tweet No, I’m not breaking up with entrepreneur.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon – Develop a consistent, reliable multi-channel brand.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby 7), and #8 (Central Square and the Necco Factory – back when they made Necco wafers.).

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. When I decided to start blogging again (I had done so as an entrepreneur) I thought about how to brand myself. If you ever want a quick way to my blog, btw, you can just type that. My brand was “business guy.” You really can’t win.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Which Bill Gates first spoke about in his book from 1995 – the Road Ahead. Micro payments for a micro blog. Wealie is a digital loyalty card which can be used in and by multiple retailers. It’s an interesting space that is starting to emerge as we move closer and closer to the digital wallet. It has smart exit options too.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

2x increase in blog signups. While personalization and machine-learning have come along way since Jakob Nielsen wrote this in 1995, the same limitations still exist… Jakob Nielsen , Nielsen Norman Group : “Having the computer personalize the website to the user assumes that the computer can guess the user’s needs.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. Think about that.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 27, 2019

The powerful blogging platform features news and opinions about current events. Fertel agreed, and by 1995 the steak house has expanded to over 80 locations. After achieving only 0.55% of the votes, Arianna picked herself up and continued on her journey to success.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

Thanks to Nikola Baldikov, InBound Blogging ! #7- It explains the series of events that took place before the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. I won’t get into spoilers in case you haven’t seen the film, but there is a moment later with him and Wilson that genuinely made me tear up when I watched it in the cinema.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. Blog Archive. On the personal side, I live in Palo Alto with my wife, two daughters (one who started blogging way before I did and the other who runs faster than I do), dog, and crested gecko. Newer Post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? Patel lays it out : If you want them to click on your blog post, watch your video or like your Instagram photo, you need to help them understand what the content is about, why they should care and how it will help or entertain them.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 22, 2015

In 1995 $10 of that $100 might have went into getting filmed developed. In fact, there are currently more than 500,000 app developers in the USA alone. A job that didn’t exist pre smart phone. A simple economic fact is that if a person has $100 in their wallet, it still gets spent. The money always gets spent, saved or invested.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 21, 2012

You could have made the exact same argument in 1995 but used the word “computer” instead of internet. To put it in a few words: Silicon Valley and the internet industry are not one and the same. I’m not going to make a long argument about this, because it’s plain and obvious.

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