Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Start in a business domain you know well.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Of IPO dreams once held so dear. And it was all fully justified, because the inevitable IPO would repay those investments many times over, and quite soon indeed. Today, we do still see, very rarely, a superstar company launched towards the IPO heavens. Listen my children and you shall hear. Hardly a founder now alive.

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IPO .Net Social Network Mobile 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Start in a business domain you know well.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Start in a business domain you know well.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? Almost all of them got scooped up by pre-IPO Google this time. That year, right before the IPO, those months mattered a great deal in terms of financial outcomes. Maybe, but the thought never even entered our minds.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. But if your new positioning message improves your engagement loop by more than the cost to your viral loop , you have a net win on your hands. Direct notifications can help ameliorate that problem. Organic notifications.

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