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.

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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. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Carpe Diem.

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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. . Michael and I wanted to be operational. We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. Now back to the "why".

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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. . Michael and I wanted to be operational. We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. Now back to the "why".

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). annual GMV.

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