Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. Most of these companies will not get big enough and earn enough profits to pay big enough salaries for teams.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” ” Like it sounds, selective disclosure is the practice of supplying material non-public information to securities professionals or major investors before disseminating it to the general public.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. Google has started to recommend a format called JPEG 2000. You should choose a host with servers geographically close to your target audience. An easy way to ensure that is with a CDN.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They bought distribution and engineering talent. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). There is also another inherent weakness. Twitter bough their most used iPhone client. No big surprise.

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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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. I always loved languages.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x. The internet is working.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. The Metaphor King and his breakthrough approach.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint also signed a strategic partnership with BMC Software, enabling BMC’s worldwide sales force and distribution partners to resell SailPoint IdentityIQ™ as the identity management component of BMC’s business service management portfolio.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The content creation and distribution aspects of inbound get most of the attention. In inbound, content creation and distribution activities are the primary top of funnel lead generation activity. you can check out a more complete definition here.). But content alone isn’t a complete inbound strategy.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users. Free product.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Story is a 2000 square foot retail space with "a point of view" that is part store, part event, rotating on a regular basis to feature different themes. Some etailers, like Bonobos and Warby Parker, use physical retail locations as displays and showrooms for otherwise online distribution.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. Eloqua was the proof of that.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update. Unfortunately, the microcode update format is undocumented and the code is encrypted.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

One of the star features is the fact that ContentCal integrates with over 2000 other applications so that you can create the perfect social media workflow by connecting ContentCal to tools you currently use (think of things like Slack or Trello) and also distribute content to channels beyond social media, like emails and blog posts.

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Social Media Media Management Social Network 95

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. ” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

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. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Toshiba Laptops. We get notebooks. Get ahead.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 4, 2016

Remember, most blogs and content efforts fail because while content gets created, there’s no community to distribute it to. Your initial 2000 or so accounts are free. You can also identify people with high Klout scores to see who to follow on networks and eventually build you online community. More: Top DIY Marketing Tools.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

It eliminates my cost of distribution. ” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. Danny Iny: I think that $2000 price point, which is a little bit iconic in some markets, I think it’s going to start falling away because $2000 is just too much to charge for information.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Insights: A more even distribution of time spent due to better structured deck. How We Can Optimize The Funnel With Sales Enablement. Produce more engaging content. of visits: 430. of unique visits: 343.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. Image source ).

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

General simplified thought: The development, distribution and promotion of products and services to suit a specific audience in order to achieve business objectives. Our interests need to be broader than that of the marketer from 1950-2000. It goes beyond distribution points and pricing models.

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