Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). It’s hard to think of a hardware/software or life science technology that dominates its space for years.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

A billion dollar valuation, the Unicorn status was once the holy grail for many VCs and founders. At zero interest rates with a seemingly never ending flow of capital to fuel growth, Unicorn creation rate hit a peak in 2021, but fast forward 3 years and justifying a billion dollar valuation seems more like a liability.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We can trace the Midwest’s renaissance to Sprout Social’s successful initial public offering (IPO) , which saw the company debut on public markets at a price of $17 per share and rise to over $120 per share today. billion company and has built up this valuation outside the Silicon Valley scene.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As soon as your business stops growing, your valuation multiples come crashing down and you can be in serious trouble. News Hubspot Initial public offering IPO Moz Software as a service Unbounce' The post Comparing Two SaaS Models: Hubspot and Moz appeared first on Version One Ventures.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As soon as your business stops growing, your valuation multiples come crashing down and you can be in serious trouble. News Hubspot Initial public offering IPO Moz Software as a service Unbounce' The post Comparing Two SaaS Models: Hubspot and Moz appeared first on Version One.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. Don’t you just love these booming markets? in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Wrong about the U.S.

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