Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. Finally, the “ death of the IPO &# and the emergence of the “ small market M&A &# changes Consumer Internet economics.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2018

Dave Jilk turned me on to it when I was a freshman (he was a senior) and from 1983 to 1995 I read almost every issue cover to cover. Why do a play off the acronym IPO – call them something innocuous like “Papayas” instead. When I was in college and my early 20s, I read Forbes Magazine religiously.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. We didn’t IPO it. Craig Kanarick ’s career has integrated digital technology, design and strategy. It was all strategic partnerships leading to IPOs. Drew Silverstein. Craig Kanarick.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

I liked meeting people, hearing the company plans, learning about their technology, figuring out if it was for real—all that was fun. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. So I started Foundation Capital in 1995. How could I do that for a living? Find Your Obession. That might be neat.

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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. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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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 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. We had recorded $1.8

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. He invented the category of sponsored search. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The technology underpinning them (like blockchain and DLT) is brilliant and has many use cases. I was experimenting with the technology, rather than investing. But like any burgeoning technology, it must go through a speculative boom and bust before it can settle into the economic infrastructure. It is here to stay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It remains to be seen what the outcomes will be in 2022 as the exit markets are less active and the IPO window is closed, but assuming the merger gets approved, we’ve already seen Activision’s $70 billion acquisition by Microsoft and Twitter’s potential $40 billion takeover by Elon Musk.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. LL Cool J, Going Back to Cali.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  In VC, it’s considered more naturally a young person’s game (perhaps because we’re always dealing with waves of new technology, young founders).    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)

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In another study of 212 startups , Wasserman found that it was rare for Founder-CEOs to run their companies in the long term; less than half were still CEO after 3 years, and less than a quarter of the CEOs of the companies that reached an IPO were Founder-CEOs. But if you’re successful, the job of being CEO shifts dramatically over time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

The Rip Van Winkle of technology, email appears to have been sleeping while everything else around it moved on. ’s purchase by Symantec, he founded SalesLogix in 1995 and led its revenue growth to $108 million, successful IPO and repurchase of ACT! That may explain why after he became Co-Founder and CEO of ACT!,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

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