Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. If everybody is over-paying for early-to-mid stage deals you’d imagine that these all need to feed into a frenzied M&A and IPO market that will garner big returns for these risks investors are taking.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team). Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. It is typical for employees to vest their options over four years with a one year cliff, which means a new hire must stay on the company for at least one year to see any shares. Is there an IPO story here?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Exactly three months after its $48 Million funding announcement, Smooth-Stone today detailed its company momentum, including significant new executive hires, new office space and renaming the company. The response from customers and technology partners validates we are onto something big. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP. As Bloomberg’s report states, just because you CAN apply, doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Prominent US VCs advised startups not to apply for SBA loans. Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Partners leave the industry. Here’s my take: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This way, employees, partners, and board members will all be on the same level with the understanding that information security plays a major role in the success of a company. When are we looking for funding, investors, or going IPO? Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

If you grew up inside of Facebook through its rise, its IPO and it becoming an 800-pound gorilla you will see the world through that lens precisely because you are so powerful that you’re used to getting your way because you’re, well, Facebook. Even big countries must be mindful of Hobbesian forces.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

My fellow partners at Austin Ventures may say this is the first thing they look for. Well, Brant and I partnered on Bazaarvoice because we complement each other very well. I was responsible for hiring the team, fundraising, establishing our Board of Directors and Advisors, and selling our initial clients. There is usually a way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. What about in the public markets?

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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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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A huge congratulations to the entire Upwork team on a successful IPO! Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com). In retrospect, it was really just hiring within a local maximum.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

My partner Dharmesh Raithatha wrote the post below on the Forward Partners blog earlier this week. The timing often depends on previous experience, key hires and the growth of the business. I’m reproducing in full here because it’s a great explanation of our solo-founder hypothesis and how we work more generally.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2- A business I built IPO’ed. A business that I built just IPO’ed (yesterday actually and I am still smiling). And so I decided to hire a blogging coach in June 2020 and she has helped me tremendously in growing my business. All in all, 2020 was a great year at Hill Law Firm. Thanks to Justin A.

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Connecticut Entrepreneur Technical Review Florida 145

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. The story continued to take unexpected twists and turns the next day after the Greylock partner meeting. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. I want to hire before I have the ability to pay anyone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Hire fewer employees until you’re bursting at the seems with work for the ones you have. If by overnight you mean 2-3 years of people second-guessing the category followed by 2-3 years of steady growth, followed by large numbers categorized as overnight success and 9-10 years later a chance at an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. I still like spending time with our teams – at GRP Partners we have a great team – but I don’t have large numbers of people to be responsible for.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

It goes beyond the change of name, to reflect the company’s intention to become fully metaverse focused within 5 years – Facebook is investing billions and hiring 1,000 people in EMEA to build their vision for our future online social interactions. For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

"A lot of the noise in the market right now is about bringing back irresponsible IPOs. This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. Our objective is to bring back quality IPOs, the kind that we had in the late '80s and the early '90s.".

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a startup CEO, one of your greatest responsibilities is to hire the best talent. During my more than nine years as a Google product lead and now as a partner at Homebrew, I’ve seen many discussions between a rock star at a big company and a startup founder go awry. Look for hires who ran towards high-priority, new projects.

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IPO Cofounder Hiring Reputation 86

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

Why a standard resume is not enough for hiring – crowdspring.co/1k6oLBD. Hottest Pre-IPO Adtech Startups | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1k6cUmV. Why a standard resume is not enough for hiring – crowdspring.co/1k6oLBD. Interesting trend at VC firms … design partners | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1k67wjJ.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Jennifer Aldoretta (@JAldoretta) | Twitter Joseph Beard Partner Perot Jain, L.P.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s unclear how the fund has been affected in the recent restructuring following WeWork’s failed IPO and series of divestments of non-core assets. The trend is in full swing since the IPOs of Slack, Uber , Lyft , Postmates and others. Okta Ventures (founded 2009) – Okta has a market cap of $16 billion.

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Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The main points I’m going to cover today are to demystify a lot of misperceptions people have about startup exists, notably: Acqui-hires are not that frequent, are hard to come by and people make much less money than you think (investors & founders). There simply aren’t a lot of exits above $100m or even IPOs.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

One of his secret: "Incentivize your marketing team on sales not leads" Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable speaking about his IPO process: " Build relationships with key public investors 2-3 years before going public (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity and T. ipo process. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Post a Comment.

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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 ? each with partners as the lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners. Here’s a hack for you.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. Nothing says more about your culture than who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote. To prepare for our IPO at Bazaarvoice, I leveraged three additional coaches?—?one in our Series A.

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Founder Cofounder Software Review San Francisco 51