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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. I’m not paranoid, but I’m not going to post trade secrets on the Internet. The unique technology we’ve built, that we’ve prototyped, that we’re contemplating, is fascinating and valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. The web browsers are as immature as the Internet browsers were in the late 90’s. These phones were so over hyped.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He added that current Internet trends favor NYC, given the reliance on creativity, design, and the importance of consumers – all areas in which NYC excels. Lastly, he touched on the distrust of equity following the bubble in 2000, and that, particularly on the East Coast, people need to see good exits and good exits that reward employees.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. Their technology proved superior, but "a better search engine" was hardly a new idea. Scott Berkun gives several other examples in a recent BusinessWeek article. The disruptors often don't make the money.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were hot.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. Retail investors were burned in IPOs in 2000, Consumers getting burned by services disappearing) Minutes 31-35.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. In 2000, the company had slightly more than 22,000 workers in the United States and nearly 30,000 workers overseas. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc. It was early 2000. So the ranges you would expect can be highly imprecise. I raised my A round at a $31.5 That was market.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Ads require an Internet connection and therefore turning off the data connection can stop the ads from popping up. Reducing the “random” and “unsolicited” connections to the Internet reduces the attack surface. formerly CA). In 2004 Don moved to threat research.

Security 160

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. I’m spending a lot of time looking at video production & distribution because I believe this will form a larger basis of the future Internet and I believe that Hollywood & television will face large, disruptive forces.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Carpe Diem. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Instead the needs of your users and your business could be met via an app that is accessed using the phone’s internet browser. Guy Cooper is Managing Director of Wave Digital , an Australian app development company founded in 2000. Does the app development company talk about web apps? encounters delays.

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VC Adventure

JULY 5, 2011

CodeSpace will be located in Trada’s downtown Boulder offices and will have over 2000 sq ft of space dedicated to the effort. There are spots for three dev teams (1-4 people each) for semi-permanent space as well as come-as-you-are dev and co-working space (with whiteboards, internet, access to caffeinated beverages, etc).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

This is part of the reason tech startups are the most popular type of startup – it’s easy to reach millions on the internet, regardless of where they live or when they do business. A really big market, ideally in the realm of millions. Your local cafe does not have this luxury. You’d like input and guidance from an expert.

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Small Business Exit Strategy Cofounder Angel Investor 154

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no.

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Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 304

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). A new revolution began when high-speed Internet connections became available to most of the developed world. 3 rd decade (2010): New generation of CMS targeting a wider market.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research. million millennials are mobile Internet users and over half (49 million) of the 86.2 Isn’t that what all millennials just want: respect? Make it mobile. Roughly 50.3

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Email Software Review Technical Review Social Media 141

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

Around 80% of all major power outages that occurred from 2000 to 2023 were caused by weather. Many parameters may be monitored by technologies like machine learning algorithms and the Internet of Things (IoT). Texas, Michigan, and California were among the most impacted states by weather-related outages.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail. Internet’s got your back.

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles.

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms. Much like the early 2000’s, the market environment is fairly tepid given a prolonged period of weakness in startup financing activity and exits. have to do with timing.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt. After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO. In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” This brings us back to Mr.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2018

Really, while people of all ages will require a trip to the dentist from time to time, a large part of your client base will be those of an elderly age, who often won’t have a great amount of accessibility to the Internet.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly. Instead, we’ll own our own identity via LSATs. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. Before giving preference to the first available program from the internet, pay attention to the set of features. The company provides self-service car sharing services.

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