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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Definition of A Startup.
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. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.
View from Seed
APRIL 23, 2015
” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly. Additionally, if you’re talking to VCs, it’s implied that you’re thinking big and thinking about a large acquisition or IPO, as well as generating hundreds of millions in revenue. You can find those here. ). Accidental VC'
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And one last specific practice that came up at this session: feverishaaron : UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.
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