Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 The reality is that the super vast majority of liquidity events are M&A and the majority of those are in the under $100M range. Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders. Lessons Learned. Regions are missing early-stage capital.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. And people like Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca & Eric Paley (at Founder Collective) are leading the charge. We all know that. That’s awesome.

Liquidity Event 308

Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Yes for Series Seed holders and founders. Drag-along. Future rights. Legal fees.

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. High Quality, and open sourced!

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Years later I’ve realized that the single most important factor to a product’s success is not the founders, not the marketing effort, and certainly not the software itself. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I’ve developed a saying.

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Marketing Software Review Technical Review Startup 50