Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. According to David Rose , CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. percent to 23.4
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.
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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 billion market capitalization. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996? We had recorded $1.8
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.
Growthink Blog
MAY 14, 2012
For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. That's 30 years ago, folks. By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%.
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. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.
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