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. So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

3G: Opening Up the App Market. 3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market. After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket. Where did the other $57 billion come from?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Fast Followers – a better idea.

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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. The market is over bloated with solutions of all sorts claiming that they’ll improve your business routine, but very few of them succeed at that. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company. million to $22.5

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Disclaimer: I’m not a stock market analyst and this is not commentary on the performance of Meta in the public market. Oculus Quest), the company owned the first first mass market VR headset and seem to be charging ahead with innovation. For example, in 1998, Prof. Already the owners of Meta Quest II (f.k.a

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. The company saw its revenue drop by 25% in 2012, and Johnson was unceremoniously ousted from his position in April 2013.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yesterday I read No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet. They entered, but didn’t win, the MIT $50K competition in 1998. Akamai was an amazing pre-Internet bubble story. As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Well.thats probably why Salesforce market cap is 4.9x He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. internet. (6).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Second, they defined these audiences by funnel stage, location, on-site behavior, and Internet service provider (ISP). Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Ad creative was also split tested. Image Source). Key Takeaways.

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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. Two, revenue. My name is John Bates.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. 5) Market Downturn. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. That’s it. That’s what we do. 7) My Blood.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. The best odds are in niche markets. 4] Theyre the more strategically valuable part of the market anyway.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it. Where am I today?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In my field—online English language teaching—there are a lot of literal business names out there: Joe’s Internet English School, Learn English Online via Skype, etc. We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth. That’s it, let’s call our company Revenue Storm!

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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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? Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. After all, scaling is hard.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. million in revenue the year before. . Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. We had recorded $1.8 But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing for Geeks. 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. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink. Version 7.0

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 5, 2010

In summary, I went online in 1998, played with the web for two years, spending my time on newsgroups, forums and surfing for information on the things I was interested in at the time. Make sure you understand how this business produces revenue , because your first goal is to get cash flow.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street. Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It’s also long been recognized that Atmospheric Marketing - or ”the effort to design buying environments to produce specific emotional effects in the buyer that enhance purchase probability” – has been an effective way of increase purchases for physical retail locations. 1998) – 120,000+ customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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