Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. A couple of quick questions: 1.)

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. A former tech journalist, Chris has built a career identifying innovative startups that create markets and drive positive and disruptive change.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

First, the venture capital business is contracting severely: From the April 18th, 2009 NVCA/PWC Moneytree report: “Venture capitalists invested just $3.0 billion in 549 deals in the first quarter of 2009, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from. I have been speaking to this point publicly since March 2009.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

April 7th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. “Front-End Developer&# Resume – Awesome. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? XML sitemap.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

One day in 2009 David Cohen and I were talking. It follows two other funds, called Bullet Time Ventures, that were a $5 million fund raised in 2009 and a $25 million fund raised in 2011. I’ve been an investor in a large number of VC funds dating back to 1996, including a bunch of the current generation of seed funds.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

I sold justbeachtowels.com in January of 2009 and made a great return on my investment with the goal of investing the funds into my next digital product site. And I didn’t even mention returns and lost shipments… May 4th, 2009 | Micropreneurship Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. Number of IPO’s has shrunk while average size has increased. i. Pre-bubble average 520 IPO’s per year.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. ► 2009. (7). Hans Hvide at the University of Aberdeen Business School just published a paper, "The Horse or the Jockey? Evidence from Nascent Firms where a Founder Dies" in an attempt to quantitatively answer this question. Do you have a U.S.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2009: 14.5. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. Adjusted for inflation and measured in 2009 dollars, the $367mm in total dollars raised by this group equals $670mm, and only 2 of these 17 companies’ IPOs (EMC $80mm and Oracle$70mm) exceed $55mm in 2009 dollars. jobs today.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Because the following list of companies, which were all venture-backed, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996: Adobe, Applied Materials, BMC Softare, Computer Associates, Dell, Electronic Arts, Fiserv, Intel, Paychex, Symantec, Intuit, NetApp, Oracle, Western Digital, Xilinx, and Yahoo! jobs today.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

For a clear example, see the following list of 17 companies that went public and raised $50 million or less between 1971 and 1996: These companies only raised $367 million in the public markets and they account for 470, 000 U.S. jobs today. While today these companies are household names, when they went publicthey were largely unknown.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2009: 14.5 If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8 3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2003: 44.6

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present. With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). 2009 Revenue (mn). Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. I always admired his perspicacity, even if he didn’t like our stock all the time! Market Value (mn). American Tower Corp. Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 21, 2009

Although new financings may pick up a bit in the second half of 209, I would predict that VC funding for 2009-2011 doesn't exceed $20 billion per year and probably stays closer to $15 billion per year. When I was an executive at Open Market and did our IPO in 1996, we executed an $80 million IPO - at the time, that was considered mid-sized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. January 5, 2009 9:36 AM Eric said. January 5, 2009 9:49 AM Nathan said. January 5, 2009 5:37 PM spankysaid. January 5, 2009 6:07 PM dodo said. I like it.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009. Let’s just say he didn’t have the benefit of the doubt.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

For example, in 1996 a relatively large supermarket chain “Dominick’s Finer Foods” discovered through experimentation that framing discounts in a bundle (“2 for $1”) instead of as single unit discounts (“1 for 50 cents”) significantly increased the number of units purchased.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. March 12th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post?

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David Teten

JUNE 19, 2020

exception: Bob Dole, 1996.). Biden was Vice President from 2009 to 2017. According to David Frum , every Republican presidential nominee of the past three decades has put on public record his contempt for and opposition to Donald Trump. They know a lot more than the rest of us about the office of the President.

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