Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Carpe Diem.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

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.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

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.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

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. Why would I spend so much time networking with other CEOs, discussing mutual problems and solutions?

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Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 62

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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

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. Why would I spend so much time networking with other CEOs, discussing mutual problems and solutions?

Initial Public Offering 70

Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 70

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42