Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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Agile VC
AUGUST 1, 2012
The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months. First the enthusiasm.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. My first IPO at Convergent. So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 4, 2009
It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. One of my favorite gadgets at home is the Harmony Universal Remote. They want to do activities. Dear E, so good to come across this.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people. In addition, to horrible bandwidth and latency, the technology products were very crude in other ways.
BeyondVC
JUNE 8, 2004
RightNow Technologies is another company in the CRM space that is delivering an “on-demand” solution, filing for an IPO last month. So why is the hosted or ASP model coming back strong from its near death experience during the Internet boom? First and foremost, without customers there is no business.
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