Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Standing here today in a city that has had many multi-billion dollar IPOs and has clearly cemented itself as a world class startup city, especially given that we’re still thriving in the pandemic and that reports of our total demise in a Zoom world have been “greatly exaggerated”, I’m happy to share some of what I’ve learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

“Hero mentors” have exited their businesses through a trade sale or IPO, sometimes multiple times; they offer inspiration to your team and coaching on strategy and tactics. We have a special relationship with certain government agencies which helps to get your tourist visas renewed with fewer trips to the government office.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Lean VC’s are Different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. The law would have the effect of allowing companies to stay private longer, deferring the significant expense, management distraction and public disclosure of financial and operating data involved in the IPO process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Competitors: Gowalla.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It was absolutely worth it. Passionate online communities are real societies.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. Many of the companies that went public via SPACs saw their valuations dramatically reduce in the months that followed post IPO.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s. Unlike the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 29, 2011

In the WSJ , CEOs Edward Muller and Larry Zimpleman with a nod to the Kauffman Foundation: In our view, there is no hope of giving consumers renewed confidence in America unless governments at all levels mount a vigorous effort to get rid of rules that discourage entrepreneurs from launching and growing new businesses. via Edward R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

As with all VCs, Sequoia expected a substantial return on its investment — most likely through an IPO. This made it likely that if the economy didn’t improve, the board would fire me and hire a new CEO who was concerned only with maximizing profits. And lots and lots of money. Zappos continues to operate independently.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Don Dodge wrote about a very dry but critically important issue facing private companies that issue equity to employees… 409A valuations : IPO bump? – If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s. Unlike the U.S.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Granted you don’t want to sound like you are interrogating them, but if there is sufficient interest on the company’s part in hiring you, they will expect you to ask those difficult questions. After that, an IPO or FPO will decide who owns portions of your new USA based company. link] Please feel free to check us out!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. I think it makes explicable why so-called "best practices" that people bring to startups from other contexts fail so miserably.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Late 2020 revealed the depth of the Solarwinds hack, which had massive implications for government agencies and (ironically) cybersecurity provider FireEye. McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp, the SPAC focused on fintech recently closed a $ 201 million IPO at NASDAQ. In just ten months, Warehouse Now has grown 400% year on year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

"A lot of the noise in the market right now is about bringing back irresponsible IPOs. Our objective is to bring back quality IPOs, the kind that we had in the late '80s and the early '90s.". We had institutional public IPO buyers on the task force, they got two votes. (I It was a diverse group.".

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. You dont have to spend time on bureaucraticstuff, because you havent hired any bureaucrats yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. And although both regions had outstanding research universities, MIT was way ahead of Stanford by every relevant measure.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In a way, this is a story about success – Israeli high tech did phenomenally in the past decade, with over $39 billion raised and Israeli tech M&A and IPOs reaching $111.29 Training is needed – the larger the company the more open it is to hire inexperienced employees as it has the resources to train them.

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