YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups. Myth #2: All startups are technology companies.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 25, 2010
After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 8, 2016
In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). .” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this.
finance.fortune.cnn.com
AUGUST 21, 2012
FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.
Reid Hoffman
JULY 27, 2021
I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.
Reid Hoffman
JULY 27, 2021
I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.
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