1996 Internet IPO Technology 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.
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.
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Growthink Blog
MAY 14, 2012
Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. Hopefully, it will help. How bad is it? Will it help?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing.
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.
Seeing Both Sides
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Akamai Technologies. Parametric Technologies Corp. Market Value (mn). 2009 Revenue (mn).
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. But VC is also a very important part of the technology ecosystem – like it or not. That’s what he knows best.
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