Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. This has to do with adoption rates; this period seems about right for the oldest cohorts (less likely to adopt new technologies) to die off and for younger cohorts (quickest to use new technologies) to enter the market. What is next?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else. Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

Do I Believe There’s a Market Here? First, do we all agree there’s a market here? If your potential investor is skeptical of the market regardless of your early traction, you either need to convince them quickly or move on. Big market but wrong time vs right time. “It’s the right market!

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Their firsthand knowledge of creating new businesses and new markets seemed quite relevant to successfully investing in other entrepreneurs working to do the same. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). The product worked.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

How to Measure Facebook ROI written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Mickie Kennedy – Enjoy! One useful app is Adobe Marketing Cloud.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. He’s also the Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research. Tom Webster: Yeah, it sprung out of a study that we’ve been doing since 1998, called the Infinite Dial.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Their firsthand knowledge of creating new businesses and new markets seemed quite relevant to successfully investing in other entrepreneurs working to do the same. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. Our company was at a stage where we were recruiting, building product, and trying to find product market fit. One of the first things every company has to do is to find product market fit.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? 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. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link].

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

So the retail market is notoriously irrational. They go to market stressing that their model is highly proprietary. UltraQuant’s real strategy is to create a pure, blind index of the market. The firm hires a lot of PhDs to do research and come out with a wonder drug, and then markets it widely with tons of PR.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

5) Market Downturn. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Thanks to David Wachs, Handwrytten ! #5)

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

TEVA INCREASES WORLD MARKET SHARE IN RATIOPHARM PURCHASE. Through the acquisition of Ratiopharm, which is the second-largest player in the German generics market, Europe’s biggest, Israel’s Teva becomes number one in Europe as its presence in Spain, Italy and France is also boosted. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.,

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 29, 2010

He talks about how he build his audience using podcasts, which are distributed via iTunes. I happened to rank 4th in this particular launch and I was marketing to about 90,000 people , so you can see why Jason is proud of his results. Some of the other marketers have lists in excess of 100,000 subscribers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you’re latter day Gen X or a Millennial you probably played it on your parents’ Nokia – it came preloaded on all the company’s phones after 1998. In the US, mobile gaming is currently a $7 billion market but that could jump to a whopping $28.9 Remember Snake? billion by 2016. But there was one problem.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. 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. Jared Hecht: Wonderful. Bates: Fantastic.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market. 1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets.

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