Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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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. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. The system worked in predictable and profitable ways. Yet while the U.S.

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