Acquisition Agile Initial Public Offering Technology 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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