Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

First, wireless voice networks – cell phone networks – had started to emerge. These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. At the same time, digital data networks to support “pagers” were also growing rapidly.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) In 2012, analysts estimate they will do $425 million in revenue and $85 million in EBITDA. Below you can see the number of doctors in the athenahealth network - which is over 25,000. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Combined with New Order Handling rules originally passed in September 1996 and implemented in 1997, these modifications to technical trading rules fundamentally changed how then-emerging electronic trading networks (ECN’s), such as Instinet, could buy and and sell stocks. This change to decimalization occurred in 2001.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Even Sequoia.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Slowly and painstakingly I started to build a business.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 10, 2004

Yes, I know I may be oversimplifying, but the point I want to make is that revenue does not equal profit, especially when many of the new growth areas that technology companies are pursuing have single digit margins as a starting point. In the same Barron’s article, Pip Coburn goes on to say, “There’s tremendous hype.

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