1995 Distribution Viral 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. 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.
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crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 6, 2017
“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Udemy.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 6, 2017
“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Udemy.
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. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Plenty of headroom there!
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