Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. With Wall Street leery of technology companies, tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups and their investors.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffet, who bought an 80% majority stake in Iscar for $4 billion in 2006, told shareholders Iscar was poised to set new records, noting that the Israeli company’s “incredible managerial team would see to that.&#. AS ISRAELI MARKET CONTINUES RECOVERY, BUFFET SHOWCASES ISCAR’S RESILIENCE.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! I'm so surprised that California is missing from the top 7. The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis.

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