Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

On the other hand, most people thought Segway was the next big thing back in 2001, as an electric “personal transporter,” but it has yet to find a foothold. Of course, you must hire the right people and really listen to them, but don’t expect them to do your job. Yet today, Twitter is a fifty billion behemoth, and MySpace is forgotten.

Dilution 428

Dilution Entrepreneur Merger Acquisition 428

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

What about dramatic mergers and acquisitions – aren’t those the panacea to ailing companies? Are charismatic superstar CEOs the answer to enduring success? Finally, cutting edge technologies ought to at least have an impact on greatness, right?

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Merger Valuation Framework 159

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S. So big companies rarely acquire startups. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 269

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 269

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S. So big companies rarely acquire startups. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 161

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 161

Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Corporates so often try to innovate yet fail and end up buying startups at ridiculously high prices and further, fail miserably at post-merger integration. . We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. Entrepreneurs oftentimes can fairly easily raise money but find it far harder to find customers and scale.

Merger 57

Merger Venture Capital Cofounder Incubator 57

Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Corporates so often try to innovate yet fail and end up buying startups at ridiculously high prices and further, fail miserably at post-merger integration. . We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. Entrepreneurs oftentimes can fairly easily raise money but find it far harder to find customers and scale.

Merger 40

Merger Venture Capital Cofounder Incubator 40