Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2013
I used to be in startups where I was dealing with engineers designing our microprocessors or selling supercomputers to research scientists solving really interesting technical problems. Or is it something that can grow to a size that will result in an acquisition or some liquidity event?
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
But the more important rationale is raised in the following about why employees most often do not have significant outcomes even in fairly positive liquidity events. The team gets another $3 million as a severance payment or an earn-out, to sweeten the acquisition offer. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33
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Berkonomics
JANUARY 5, 2023
The first rule: 10/40: One of my company CEOs recently described his rule for acquisition success, and it resonated with me as a great goal for planning during acquisition exercises. This CEO states that he has made it work twice when acquiring companies, and that is enough for him to make it his rule for all future acquisitions.
Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions).
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on. VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. The New Exits.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 7, 2013
“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
20 hardware engineers getting together to form a Syndicate. 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate. Institutional VCs rely a model which optimizes for billion dollar outcomes via an acquisition or IPO. Instead a series of AngelList Syndicates could serve as complements or substitutions for local in-market dollars overseas.
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