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. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Google is a $25 billion dollar company with most of its revenue from AdWords.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The Funding Problem.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company. In October 1998, I was excited beyond belief when I received an approval notice for an H1-B visa through my own company!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

For example, in 1998, Prof. Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes).

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

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. In this internet age, your words can come back to haunt you—so think before you speak.

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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).

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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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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

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. How did Akamai do it? . .

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

million in revenue the year before. . But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. We had recorded $1.8

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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 revenue on the darkroom rental was close to what I was making weekly, I was in disbelief. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening?

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

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. This is an easy mistake to make. 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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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. Adding Ad Revenue. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. In those days you could go public as adogfood portal, so as a company with a real product and real revenues,we might have done well.

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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. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

By this time, consumption will have already risen and a significant portion of the population will have had a steady revenue growth. Innovation is promoted in various fields, like Internet, cybersecurity, and computer vision. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. On the one hand, the population is educated.

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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. 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). How the use of internet is transform. for Lawson?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . Recommending the wrong brand of pizza for the company party rarely puts your job at risk, but selecting the wrong lead management software, or telephone system, or shipping provider could cost the company thousands in lost revenue. GetResponse (est.

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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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

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. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. What do you do?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0 bubble” include articles and tweets from the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, and CNET.

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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.

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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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