Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

Silicon Valley 237

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. We are a better humanity thanks to the work of journalists, I hope the industry finds a sustainable business model. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews. You take advantage of them by living in 2017!

Metrics 143

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Popularized in the mid-late 2000’s by the rise of DIY website testing tools like Optimizely, Monetate, and Adobe Target, A/B Testing turned a previously painful and statistically rigorous mathematical process into a comparatively easy method of improving conversion rates. Some business models use experimentation to great effect already.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. Well, Uber has actually made new things possible in cities, new business models possible, uh, new businesses possible.

Technical Review 74

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

B2C 136

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. The recently announced $5.3B

Disintermediation 69

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click. B2B and B2C. Click maps. Red equals lots of clicks.

Analytics 48

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