Internet Marketing Valuation Viral 
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 25, 2023
Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. Both have worked. Most are still confused about the right priority.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2023
This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only from recent positive events, and ignoring the reality that markets saturate or evaporate. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 21, 2020
Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. Both have worked. Most are still confused about the right priority.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2016
I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 23, 2007
Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2020
This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only from recent positive events, and ignoring the reality that markets saturate or evaporate. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Carpe Diem. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.
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