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. An internal business expansion is often incompatible with established operations, thus mergers and acquisitions are the most common scaling strategies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

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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. There are already so many of those and being old enough, I saw the massacre that happened to these endeavours post 2001.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

After leaving Razorfish in 2001, Craig spent a year immersed in food, including a stint as a prep cook at Babbo, Mario Batali’s flagship restaurant. After the merger people were asking, “Why am I working for these people now? there’s a big difference between creating things, managing things, and operating things.

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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. There are already so many of those and being old enough, I saw the massacre that happened to these endeavours post 2001.

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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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