A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). It’s not about the financing path, it’s about what you’ve decided to build. Support.com — On 2.5m

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

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.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? When you look at the ridiculous 40 year history of underpricing, and fully understand the “ moronic ” process used to engineer underpriced IPOs, it is easy to understand why the Direct Listing is the far more intelligent choice. Would they be loyal?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82