1995 Internet Product Social Network 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product. Carpe Diem.
Reid Hoffman
MAY 16, 2020
It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2011
Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. He remarked, “It’s true that with Facebook connect all websites can immediately have access to your social graph. He’s open and insightful with his knowledge.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 28, 2011
Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 28, 2011
Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. Production and efficiency is being replaced very quickly by value and meaning. There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line….
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