Acquisition Aggregator Internet Silicon Valley 
YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2011
This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. They tend to lose the battle early on by getting ahead of themselves.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. better user growth.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. So what’s left?
Agile VC
JUNE 5, 2011
It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively.
Agile VC
MARCH 8, 2012
I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1. If you look at newly public companies in the software & internet sector you see a wide spread. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. So now what? Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.
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