crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 3, 2011
The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2011
Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Filed under: Venture Capital.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. An unprecedented number of startups, over 100 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.
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. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?
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