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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.ā€. Iā€™m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 1970 ā€“ 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. August 1995 ā€“ March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Seth Sternberg ā€“ Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop. Dive into New Channels.

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The Rise of the Lean VC ā€“ Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. Lean VCā€™s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development. They build a minimum feature set.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valleyā€™s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If Oā€™Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Itā€™s a great business.