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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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. And how has that affected venture capital? Almost no skills from being a venture capitalist translate to being a CEO, and vice versa. If you're the second person, you're an operator. It's literally impossible.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. Filed under: Family/Career , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Venture Capital. Prices for both private and public tech valuations exceed any rational valuation to their current worth. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). RigUp is a leading labor marketplace focused on the oilfield services industry.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. In fact, the company has done so well that it now operates in 13 countries.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

" Barry Silbert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SecondMarket As the Founder and CEO, Barry Silbert is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and operation of all its markets. Dan began making institutional venture capital investments as the Chief Investment Officer for the PS Capital funds in the second half of.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. From 1995–2010, the Israeli startup ecosystem was not focused on creating big companies. Those that have are gold.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So When most people think of startups, they think of companies likeApple or Google.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I ran the group from 1995 through 2002, which was an incredibly exciting period of time, during which time the so-called cocktails developed. And she's modeled the impact of larger class sizes, smaller class sizes, double dorm rooms, single rooms, those sorts of things to understand how we can most likely operate.

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