Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Goldman Sachs (an investor in our company) told us we’d IPO within 18 months for $1 billion so not to take any offers. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our product releases took longer to ship than we had hoped. We were hot.

PR 331

PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time - [link]. The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time – [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”. While the number of IPOs in 2020 is close to 2019, the average valuation has doubled compared to last year, driven in particular by the massive IPO of Snowflake, which reached a $70 billion market cap on its first trading day. UiPath was another inspiring company.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. As Uber becomes more established in a market, pick-up times continue to fall, and the product continues to improve. There are multiple reasons why this is a flawed assumption.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. What if you get product market fit beyond your wildest dreams? And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60