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. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. to store it.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Their content wasn’t designed to rank for popular keywords and harness existing search volume. We call this movement-first content : articles designed to inspire and build credibility, instead of educate and target keywords.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133