Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S. Justice Department and 20 state Attorneys General brought suit again Microsoft for anticompetitive practices designed to maintain its monopoly in PC operating systems and internet browsers. While tech hadn’t come to Washington, Washington came for the tech industry.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!,

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. At the same time, acquisition opportunities will expand as large existing companies, unable to keep up with the pace of innovation in these emerging Internet markets, will “innovate&# by buying startups.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. It was also at the peak of the Internet bubble and she spent a lot of time working with various business units to think more long term and more synergistically.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. These are people born after the 1980s who grew into the online world of the Internet, social technologies, computers. The Platform Effect.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. The only problem is that it’s simply not true. By then it was too late.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening? That’s when I knew I wanted to connect people to the stories they care about, no matter where they are.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Angel investors like Andy Bechtolsheim - who put $100,000 into Google in September 1998, a position now worth more than $1.7 Or someone like Mark Cuban, who rode the Internet wave perfectly, to the tune of selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

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. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. Given this, I wonder what we will be looking at 2 years from now?

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. Given this, I wonder what we will be looking at 2 years from now?

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Microsoft’s market share of operating systems is 35%, down from 96% in 1998-2005. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job. CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

She began training on the Internet in 1998 and began the first television-like broadcasting in 2002, launching her own TV channel – www.hvacchannel.tv. : Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth ” and four other award-winning books. The post Do You Have The Mercedes Benz Syndrome? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text based, with some images thrown. It’s a different world to how I first started out online.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores. Sold to Yahoo!

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. Ifthere are seven or eight, disagreements can linger and harden intofactions.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. In this internet age, your words can come back to haunt you—so think before you speak. There’s no denying that Bill Gates is a visionary, founding Microsoft in 1975 and monopolizing the tech industry for decades.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet. But it was at Yoyodyne where Godin popularized the principle of so-called permission marketing , and went on to author many books on the subject. “They used to be the same thing.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yesterday I read No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet. They entered, but didn’t win, the MIT $50K competition in 1998. Akamai was an amazing pre-Internet bubble story. As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): John, it may not mean a lot to you today, but at the time it certainly did because most people had the question, what's the internet?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. What other startups have team members been involved with?

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Transformify

APRIL 11, 2017

A law was passed in 1998 that stated that companies must remove any material off of the web that someone claims rightfully belongs to them. The site is so popular in fact that it accounts for 4% of all internet traffic during peak evening times in the USA. In fact, quite the opposite.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m a tech co-founder in internet startups and after you’ve co-founded a few ventures you definitely have a much more of an appreciation for what’s required to make a startup work at the technical level – it’s certainly not just a software engineer. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! (Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. Insurance companies speak with a different voice than Internet companies. You’ve probably seen and heard some of the most influential taglines of the past 50 years: Got milk? California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Just do it (Nike) – 1988. Money provides a partial answer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. Insurance companies speak with a different voice than Internet companies. You’ve probably seen and heard some of the most influential taglines of the past 50 years: Got milk? California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Just do it (Nike) – 1988. Money provides a partial answer.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Second, they defined these audiences by funnel stage, location, on-site behavior, and Internet service provider (ISP). Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Ad creative was also split tested. Image Source).

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. Although PayPal was introduced in 1998, consumers have been buying and selling online since 1994. Online Shopping.

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