Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. 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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. there’s a big difference between creating things, managing things, and operating things. We were better at creating things and not so good at managing or operating them. …

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. The Wedding Channel. Shopping.com. Commission Junction.

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