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
For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.
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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. provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs.
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).
Agile VC
APRIL 13, 2012
And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.
Agile VC
AUGUST 1, 2012
The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months.
VC Cafe
JULY 6, 2010
Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. We analyze your bandwidth and make all your stuff very simple. Right now we only share within the Libox network. VC Cafe: What’s the story behind Libox? He made it very profitable.
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