2001 Business Model Founder IPO 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out.
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Mucker Lab
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. The road ahead for entrepreneurs.
Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. They kind of invented this business model. Acquia, Inc. What will come next?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson.
Austin Startup
MARCH 2, 2019
I made very few edits to the original post, mostly in the area of readability and grammar (not in substance of content): Spurred on by my recent Lucky7 post on how capital efficient Bazaarvoice was on its path to IPO , two friends sent me great posts this week on entrepreneurship and risk. I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?
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