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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

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 sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. We were hot.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

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

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”. In 2000 and 2008, the economic crises had a dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem, but 2020 seems to be very different. Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks?

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