Diego Basch
AUGUST 14, 2013
I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). Today’s search engines are no longer about the web. Fast forward 16 years. I’ll stop here.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.
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Pascal's View
AUGUST 28, 2010
There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. GDP growth, the U.S.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). Support.com — On 2.5m
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel– basic research.” The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.” In the 1990s the U.S. million a year.
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. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.
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