Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 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. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. So what’s left?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. This is the blog post I needed to read.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap. But, I really do want you to lean into this one. The plots are from the American Time Use Survey , a multi-year study from 2003 to 2015 conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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