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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

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. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ link] leehower.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. Unless you have the most viral, sticky product ever,” Woodhead noted, “there’s a bit of ‘coming over the hill’ with analytics, and you hope for a soft landing. based company to a Chinese facility. Conclusion.

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BlogFrog – From Blogs To Communities

YoungUpstarts

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. The third wave of podcasting.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.