Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

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.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

Database 236

Database Social Media Global Distribution 236

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products.

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Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

The End of “Internet” Companies. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. I’m not sure whether it’s 10 years from now or 50 years from now, but at some point in the medium to long term future we’ll cease talking about “internet” companies in any meaningful sense.

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

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. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products. Photo Credit: Rob Kessler.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Cuba Haiti Technical Review 97

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. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. They bought distribution and engineering talent. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie].

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

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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Government Distribution Stock United States 280

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service).

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

The result of all these things is that you end up with tons of “5-star” rated users or products and can’t tell the difference between them. I’m not going in depth on this one since you can read all about it here. Just need to graph out the distribution curve of feedback and grade people according to a standard deviation.

Software Review 60

Software Review Software Developers Software Development Search 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

Database 188

Database Social Media Global Distribution 188

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

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Entrepreneur Database Social Media Global 272

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. Today, there are over 2.1

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Don’t be frazzled … this is just the way it is.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes?

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

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Startup Database Social Media Global 258

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

A similar way of thinking is to “minimize execution risk,” because early on startups are nothing but risk — risk that the product won’t work, risk that the customers won’t pay (enough), risk that you can’t economically acquire customers, risk that the market doesn’t exist, and so on.

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San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

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.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

As I walk around my neighborhood in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, I count every storefront whose products or services could be better delivered over the internet. 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.

Columbus 140

Columbus Distribution Internet Community 140

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. These companies didn’t blitzscale; they scaled sustainably.”.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. When his mother became ill and Eben spent some months accompanying her to doctors in order to get the right diagnosis and treatment, he had a realization that led him to his true mission. "I

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

John Jantsch: So Teach and Grow Rich, for those that are not familiar with it, really was the kind of the idea of introducing courses, and teaching, and educating, and info products, I guess, which have been with us for years really. It eliminates my cost of distribution. John Jantsch: So what’s changed, Danny? All really good.”

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Bandwidth Cost Audience Video 36

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

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. Product – Solution. Our interests need to be broader than that of the marketer from 1950-2000. It goes beyond distribution points and pricing models.

Marketing 92

Marketing Distribution Finance Audience 92

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

I wrote my first, I don’t think I wrote my first book until 2006, so you wrote yours about 10 years before that maybe, on a topic that was just getting started, internet marketing. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter. So what’s, for you, what’s changed about book writing?

Flash 74

Flash Software Review Naming Los Angeles 74

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Leadership.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. Create “point” product value. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there were hundreds of brands of personal computers introduced in the American market. First via the phone and later via the Internet. ” YouTube owns “Internet videos.”

Silicon Valley 96

Silicon Valley Business Plan Stock America 96

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

They permitted attackers to execute arbitrary code on virtually ever Ruby on Rails application, without requiring that the application do anything to enable the attack other than “be hooked up to the Internet.” In the worst case, attackers root every unpatched Rails app on the Internet. Well, no to the nuance.

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. These people sit around thinking "lofty thoughts about markets, products, the competition, and the like.

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

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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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. As Uber becomes more established in a market, pick-up times continue to fall, and the product continues to improve. There are multiple reasons why this is a flawed assumption.

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