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When VCs Invest Together, Does Ability or Affinity Matter?

Feld Thoughts

4/11 and @pmarca on why the IPO is not what it used to be – [link]. ” I read the summary, which is kind of the “PR piece” for the article, but I didn’t find it satisfying. ” Also, success was defined as a company having an IPO (the data range for the study was 1975 – 2003).

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

A cautious person wouldn’t try to pry people out of Twitter right before their IPO to” join my cause!!” In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. ” “Buy a house?

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When VCs Invest Together, Does Ability or Affinity Matter?

Feld Thoughts

4/11 and @pmarca on why the IPO is not what it used to be – [link]. ” I read the summary, which is kind of the “PR piece” for the article, but I didn’t find it satisfying. ” Also, success was defined as a company having an IPO (the data range for the study was 1975 – 2003).

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. As for Google a decade later, after an IPO and billions upon billions in ad revenue later Google is one of the largest companies in the world. He said this.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

It was still a year away from its IPO. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. But first some background.) Its latest product was an oscilloscope, the HP 150a. on June 24, 2009 at 4:31 pm Said: [.]