Acquisition Business Model Customer Development Merger 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 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. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.
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Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). Your company had money in the bank to expand your business, scaling the company from the “build” stage into the “grow” stage.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2010
To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. How to get there.
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