IPO Management Venture Capital Vertical 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?
Austin Startup
JUNE 27, 2017
Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.
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Haystack
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO. By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Qualtrics could help SAP expand into CRM offerings.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2011
In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. 5:00 – 5:55).
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Nick Davidov is the Investment Director at iTech Capital and Managing Director of The Pult Group. As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. One of the most recent success story is the IPO of QIWI plc on the NASDAQ in May 2013.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
My first IPO at Convergent. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. There were a few times in my career I knew at that moment I was watching something profound – (Holding the glass masks of the Z80 microprocessor. First silicon of the MIPS RISC processor.)
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
In the old days, the brand manager of a consumer packaged goods product had to spend energy inferring the effectiveness of their television ads through a combination of trailing indicators (like market share) or time-consuming market research. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it.
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