Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3%

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. First to develop or patent an idea. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. The development of 4G expanded on the 3G revolution by making mobile broadband applications possible.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. I told myself it would make me better at my job–but really I was starting to develop a new career. The revenue on the darkroom rental was close to what I was making weekly, I was in disbelief.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

I came to the United States in 1998 as a Turkish immigrant with my husband Serhat Pala. Since the company’s founding, we’ve seen 2,000 percent revenue growth with 30 percent year-over-year growth. Perhaps some of my focus on diversity comes from my own background. Scaling her multi-channel infrastructure is Zeynep’s primary focus.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket. 1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Startups in developing economies, for instance, are addressing their issues through ingenious technologies and solutions. It is interesting to note the role that the nation has played in the development of other economies, notably that of Israel. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. As a matter of fact, yes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

136 CMOs were recently asked “What do you see as your biggest opportunity for revenue generation in early 2013?” Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. “ They measured every single thing ” by developing one massive database of key metrics.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. iridium satellite network.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? . We kind of bring it all together.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

For example, in 1998, Prof. We are still in a very early stage of the development of the so-called Metaverse and I expect the hardware, the graphics, the user experience and functionality offered to users will develop exponentially as we progress.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2015

Run of the mill startups accept seasonal drag without a plan while the ones that eventually grow significantly larger do not accept profit swings or revenue losses as part of their company’s reality. Here’s how to change your business model in order to mitigate or leverage seasonal demand: Level out revenues. Mitigating Seasonality.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. Secondly, developers are more productive. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Horace Dediu, Asymco.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

His unique style and personal touch has helped him develop a large worldwide audience consisting of accountants, bookkeepers, and small business owners, as well as general consultants and technology enthusiasts. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. Show Quotes .

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 11, 2016

He has run a successful web, graphics, and app development firm since 1998, completing projects for both small and large businesses. In 2011 and 2012, the market shifted, and the days of large revenue projects began to dry up. Instead, setup a unique account for your “real revenue” and subtract it out.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

In 1998, before they even incorporated, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were trying to present their concept to early-stage, or "angel" investors, with limited success. That's enough to jumpstart your company's development in a way bootstrapping and maxing out your credit cards simply can't match. So what do angels want?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication. New Market Revenue Curve.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned. Paul Erdos wasparticularly good at this.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Two, revenue.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2011

More interesting than the fact that it beat out “nom nom nom,&# the cheery affirmation of cookie love by childhood favorite Sesame Street character Cookie Monster, was that the 1998 Word of the Year was the tech prefix “e&# as in eCommerce. expanded features and functions). app subscription, requiring a monthly fee.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

You can do that through funding, or building recurring revenue that allows the company to continue on, or apparently by saving money on gas or slimming down server hardware. Stripped of useless components and fitted with corkboard to keep wires from crossing, Google developed new super-slim servers. They looked ugly.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

A semiotic analysis can be part of a checklist when developing a new ad campaign or publishing a core content asset. Start with these three, then develop a chain of sub questions: What does the text say? We can’t empathize with a multi-billion-dollar company losing a fraction of their revenue, but we’ve all endured a foot injury.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I have faced, and continue to face, many challenges along the way—evolving from an editor to a business owner, developing a memorable brand, finding great talent, to name a few. As a service-oriented company, we thrive on how we treat people and so far, we have been reaping the rewards of developing our people and satisfying our customers.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

If so, how can you develop an emotional thread that keeps people connected through each step of the buying process? But it also means that you need to thoroughly understand your audience and their “emotional baseline” in order to develop a strategy that hits all the right emotional notes before reaching the final call to action.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. Many other approaches develop all of the time.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Founded in 1998, we continue to be at the forefront of the digital payments revolution. Here’s an excerpt from Harvard University ‘s about blurb… Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. You want this to be passive, so you need to find ways to develop either content or have people use your website without you personally investing the time.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” (As

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