Reid Hoffman
JULY 23, 2020
The fundamental choice that venture-backed entrepreneurs face is simple: M&A or IPO? Those traditional investors ask, “What’s your business model?” That effort failed, and more than a year into Google’s history, there wasn’t a viable business model. You can listen to that here.
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Creating this value is anchored in finding a repeatable, scalable business model. pivot the business. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. Risk and reward. change the CEO.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and.
NZ Entrepreneur
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
One of the main (and early) steps is to make a considered decision about what IP means to your business and what IP tools will be used to support your business model. Not doing so can cause big problems later for your business. The IPO did not proceed. The shotgun approach. Points to think about.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.”
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I dont think so.
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. Here are the ingredients: Business model : This is actually the most important ingredient of the five.
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