Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Initial Public Offering (IPO). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S. (vi)

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

It was an Internet CEO roundtable in early 2000 (almost a year before the crash of the stock market) where it became obvious before the public was aware, that the bubble was just beginning to burst for such tech businesses.

Initial Public Offering 62

Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 62

Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Don’t you just love these booming markets?

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Merger IPO Initial Public Offering 69

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

IPO 38

IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

It was an Internet CEO roundtable in early 2000 where it became obvious before the public was aware, that the bubble was just beginning to burst for such tech businesses. The answer is that I am the recipient of many insights from fellow CEOs that sometimes strike like lightning bolts when least expected.

Initial Public Offering 70

Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 70

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen.

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31