July 2005 - An Update From the Digital World: Netscape IPO — Ten Years Later

On August 9, 1995, Netscape went public.
It helped spark the rapid growth of the Internet, massive infrastructure investments, and unprecedented innovation. It also helped drive what we have called "a boom -->bust --> boom-let period for new-company creation and a boom-let --> bust --> boom period for wealth creation."

The ups and downs of the evolution of the Internet are well documented.
That said, what’s especially startling here — ten years later — is just how far we have come.

In this note, we highlight 19+ events from the past 12 months that hammer home the progress since Netscape’s IPO.
Part of the interesting news we see here is that we are still in the early innings of the impact and development of the Internet. The innovation pipeline is more vibrant — and the pace of change is faster — than we have seen in our lifetimes. Strap in!

July 2005 - An Update From the Digital World: Netscape IPO — Ten Years Later (10 pages)