1998 Acquisition Business Model Viral 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that.
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