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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. The two other players in the add-on graphics business, Radius and RasterOps, had a combined 90% market share. The new products potentially looked to be industry leaders if and when they came to market.
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prosperati.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. In order for stock options to work, your employees must first have a vision of what stock options can do for them. There must be a healthy acquisition or IPO pipeline in the market.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.” It would be the company where I actually earned the title.
www.readwriteweb.com
MARCH 7, 2011
Based on my experience as the co-founder of StartupDigest , I believe that the startup investing industry is quickly being organized more like the public investing market, and what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach. s 500, and the Nasdaq composite Index.
www.informationarbitrage.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions. Tags: socalcto startupcto.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. There were no venture investors. The “customers’” contracts funded the company.
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