ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

IPO 121

IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

We didn’t IPO it. In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. It was all strategic partnerships leading to IPOs. When the Internet was on fire people said, “How do I make some money off this Internet thing?”

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Founder 252

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 252

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. This IPO and others like it (e.g.,

IPO 48

IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. It was 2007.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Overture was sold to Yahoo!

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

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.

Internet 297

Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 297

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. It was 2007.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

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!, Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3)   It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3)

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

The large media companies, too, were seen as great early customers and hotbeds of innovation (I remember how thrilled we were when we secured Time Warner's ground-breaking Pathfinder division as a customer at Open Market back in 1995, thinking we had landed what would be the 800 lb gorilla of the Internet age).

New York 20

New York Washington New York City DC 20

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

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. They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy. Ifthere are seven or eight, disagreements can linger and harden intofactions.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 121

San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121