Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions.

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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). Board Control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). Funding risk. Exit strategy.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

more in Small Business. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Got an awesome software application or tech service that makes your life easier as a small business owner? Of the 6,613 U.S.-based

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