Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request. Now look around.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. Now the cost of entry to the Party is rising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

. “Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years. Share and Enjoy:

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. Many of these are funded by respected venture capital firms such as AZ16.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Conferences are a great way to meet industry professionals, explore the newest technologies and innovations in your industry and to receive tips and insight for your profession. TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Launch Festival.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It’s important to note that a fair amount of the recent capital in the market is driven by speculation from the astronomical returns that cryptocurrencies have achieved in 2017, and a “fear of missing out” (FOMO). For the first time, we have a truly global technology revolution on our hands, fueled by smartphones, sensors and blockchain tech.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Each major city has created physical technology hubs with strong public/private partnerships.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. WSJ Classroom.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. Add wearable technology and even in body embedded sensors and the implications are significant.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Data Says Otherwise.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

This year, HBCU@SXSW will be housed at Capital Factory, where participants in the program will interview for roles in the tech industry throughout their visit. Founder and CEO of @BlackGirlsCode Kimberly Bryant ( @6Gems ) is changing the face of #technology by empowering young women of color.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Mergers & Acquisitions: Global mergers & acquisition activity totaled $710 billion (Thomson Reuters), up 54% from last year. Venture Capital. 1,348 companies raised more than $15 billion from venture capitalists, up 36%.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

Nic Brisbourne on why the technology start-up ecosystem will remain an important part of the global economy, despite some recent missteps. per cent return on venture over the last ten years. My latest column for the Kernel. It was published on Wednesday.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

After the turn of the century, startups created fewer jobs than they did before the year 2000. The University of Alabama at Birmingham points to the healthcare industry as being ripe for disruption through technology. See Also: Five Business Technology Trends for 2017. It’s time for a startup that benefits the world.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox claims it is already profitable and that the proceeds of this round will be used to expand its sales and marketing efforts globally. Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel. Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Oversi, the global leader in OTT Internet Video and P2P caching solutions, announced today that it has completed a new investment round, totaling US$ 4.9 million, led by Carmel Ventures together with Cisco(R), smac partners and StageOne Ventures. See Oversi’s press release after the jump. PRESS RELEASE. About Oversi.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As any venture capitalist worth his salt will tell you, there is a chasm of difference between the mostly grounded-in-reality financial forecasts offered by public companies, and the almost never do come true "rosy scenario" projections offered as a matter of course by emerging technology companies. So what is going on?

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. Behind every new breakthrough technology, every new industry trend, there are people. It was a much, much bigger deal — a new, open, incredibly generative way of connecting and empowering people.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. Venture Capital. (3). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Favorite Podcasts.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Huobi’s venture capital arm also recently funded Terra, a Singapore-based company that is developing stablecoin technology to better allow cryptocurrencies to be used in ecommerce, targeting Asian economies first. The writer would have probably written a similar piece about the internet in 2000.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

Yesterday, the NASDAQ crossed the 6,000 mark, its first breakthrough "round number" since 2000 when the widely followed technology index reached 5,000 for the first time. Or with the other 99.99% of businesses without the vast financial resources, global brands, and treasure troves of intellectual property like these tech behemoths?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Before jumping into the list, let’s have a quick look at what’s been a very special year in many ways for the cloud ecosystem globally and in Europe. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? million today.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 This brings to mind a bigger question of where we're going from here.

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