Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
State Regulation In addition to federal laws, each State has its own regulatory environment that applies to businesses operating within the state in areas such as land-use , zoning, motor vehicles, state banking, building codes, public utilities, drug laws, etc. The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 26, 2018
On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. Conclusion.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Microsoft’s market share of operating systems is 35%, down from 96% in 1998-2005. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working.
Austin Startup
JANUARY 31, 2018
That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. What other startups have team members been involved with?
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