California IPO Software Development Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. My first IPO at Convergent. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.
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infochachkie.com
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”).
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. 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.
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