Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. In addition to FOMO it is partly driven by massive increase in valuations for earlier-stage companies who raised money at bit seed prices but who still have product risk.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. When I was starting LinkedIn, I had an early board member who asserted to me with great vigor and certainty that the business model of LinkedIn would be advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There are 20x more consumers online. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations. British, India & Pakistani ex-pats on a global scale want to watch cricket.

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