Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup. Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing? Startups are those companies that are still in the process of searching for a business model.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Already popular in China, livestreaming commerce will be a new battleground for retailers and may bring community and entertainment to online shopping – elements it currently lacks “ (Disclaimer: we’re investors in Syte.ai , the visual search/image recognition tool for commerce).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

IPOs are difficult company transactions as it requires companies to go public. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention. Going public implies that a business is subjected to new federal, state and local regulations. Strategic Partnerships.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Initial Public Offering (IPO). This happened when Google bought YouTube, seamlessly integrating the video platform into their own search product. Now, when you google a topic, you will often notice that videos appear on your search result page. Types of exit strategies. We will cover them in more depth below: Acquisition.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

For exits, acquisitions are the rule and IPOs the exception. Using high-throughput screening to search for small molecules, which can be a starting point (or lead compound) for a new drug, scientists can test thousands of candidate molecules against a database of millions in their libraries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 15, 2010 Some IPO speculation Inspired by Steve Blank’s post today about the “lost decade&# of IPO’s , I’d like to make some predictions. The fact that IPO’s are disappearing makes intuitive sense to me. Let me be clear: Steve is the historian.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). Ad Words as you likely know are the paid results you see when you do a Google search. Google’s Ad Sense did, too.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Overture (Goto.com).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. Also, search what type of product features your competitors are adding and why? If you are already in the global market, then search for markets that you have not tapped into, or go for partnerships that you haven’t made yet. Market Research.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. Q1 saw the most tech IPOs in four years, but funding amounts are down – [link]. Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think ! – [link].

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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Life Beyond Code

MAY 16, 2012

The profound lessons that startups can learn from Facebook IPO. Tomorrow is the Facebook IPO and I am not expert enough to predict what is going to happen. There are several people out there who are vying for your attention and stories like Facebook IPO is a great way to DEMAND that attention. Have a great day.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It remains to be seen what the outcomes will be in 2022 as the exit markets are less active and the IPO window is closed, but assuming the merger gets approved, we’ve already seen Activision’s $70 billion acquisition by Microsoft and Twitter’s potential $40 billion takeover by Elon Musk.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Pinterest and Visual Search. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. As search engines get smarter and start working in more relevant social influence paramaters (+1′s, Facebook Likes, Klout , etc.), Raul Pla , SimpleWifi and UseABoat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

If you ever felt enticed to jump into a quick money deal, like a real-estate quick-flip, or an IPO, that was your Opportunist side showing. You go all over the country, the world, and the Web searching for “best practices” in marketing, finance, planning, and funding. Specialist. Internal forces (your startup team).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

This happens when you either sell your company ( M&A ) or go public (an IPO.) As the company goes from searching for a business model to growth , only then will they bring in a new “professional” management team to scale the company (along with a business development executive to search for an acquirer) or prepare for an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. We funded the seed round, the A round, the B round, C round, D round and E round. Jamie is truly a visionary and a focused executioner. Were we SURE that consumers would buy a video doorbell?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes. Search for movies times, book your tickets, see a show. The Exit Problem.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. With Facebook in the late innings of its IPO process, Yahoo! in court if necessary even if it meant delaying their IPO slightly. So put in the context of Facebook’s IPO process and a new Yahoo! execs involved.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. What we’ve learned is that while companies execute business models, startups search for a business model. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. Plus Facebook has ample cash on hand today and will get a huge slug more from the IPO. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. Andersen Consulting won an international artibitration case against its sister company Arthur Andersen and rebranded themselves as Accenture. I love that.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Any IPO touting the word ‘ com’ had investors lining up. When you buy a stock of Apple, Alphabet or Amazon, their prices may well be depressed for a period, but it doesn’t stop people buying iPhones, searching or ordering online. Remember the dot com boom between 1995-2000? Things of value need utility or yield.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Burr, Egan, Deleage [Boston] –> Huge wins in the 1980s and early 90s included Continental Cablevision (sold for $5.3B – now a big chunk of what is Comcast), Qwest Communications, Cephalon (biotech IPO, acq by Teva), and Powersoft (Burr, Egan made 35x when it went public and then was acquired by Sybase). Previous Entries.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

And even if somehow you avoid it until your IPO, remember that an IPO is a fundraising event itself. And there were other offers along the path to IPO that we also turned down. Man’s Search for Meaning , one of my favorite books ever, addresses this in a profound way.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Twiggle (2014) – Twiggle develops next generation e-commerce search leveraging advanced techniques in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing (NLP).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Why Google+ Pages Will Have a Huge Impact on the Way Brands Approach Social Media & Search – [link]. Report: Search To Dominate Mobile Advertising By 2015 – [link]. Are We At An Inflection Point For Mobile Search? Very shady, if true.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

This is how we think about our IPO as well. We made a commitment to them when we gave them equity that we’d work hard to make it worth a lot and make it liquid, and this IPO is fulfilling our commitment. We’re going public for our employees and our investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. You want to build your own IPO and exit. If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ".

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

As such, we are developing relationships with strategic partners with the goal of a licensing agreement, possibly a M&A or an IPO if the business model moves in a direction that warrants it. The second goal is to focus on maximizing the ROI for our investors. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

While most of the IPOs have been in Quantum Computing, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and distinct markets: Quantum Computing , Quantum Communications and Quantum Sensing and Metrology. Currently this is a nascent commercial technology in search of a future viable market. So why the excitement about quantum?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 SEO For Facebook Graph Search? Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

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