Business Model IPO Software Review Technical Review 
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. pivot the business. Risk and reward. change the CEO.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. — 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. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not. Tech investing is risky.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.
Reid Hoffman
JULY 23, 2020
The fundamental choice that venture-backed entrepreneurs face is simple: M&A or IPO? It could be a user base, a dataset, a unique technology, or some combination of the above factors. Those traditional investors ask, “What’s your business model?” You’re also going to be valuable and attractive as an IPO candidate.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.
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