Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). 2. Information is everywhere.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue. We raised $16.5
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. In the 20 th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. For example, Acquia runs its Drupal infrastructure on more than 8,000 AWS instances and serves more than 27 billion hits a month (or 333TB of bandwidth). Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO?
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In addition, to horrible bandwidth and latency, the technology products were very crude in other ways. Average consumer bandwidth increased 100 fold due to cable modems, DSL, and high-speed wireless networks. For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot).
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. An IPO requires special preparation of its own, some of it complex.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
245 
Let's personalize your content