Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) So what’s left?
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below. (It
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www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. Finance | Tuesdays. Leadership.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. ” We’re looking at each other trying to get the next sale.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. What do you tell somebody in that situation? Your highs are super high.
abovethecrowd.com
AUGUST 23, 2020
Twenty years ago, each investment bank had massive sales teams which were 10X larger than they are today. On an IPO, these commissioned sales executives would “hit the phones” to help make a deal successful (earning commission for each placement). Door #3: The SPAC Merger. So what have they been replaced with?
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.
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