Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). I can't think of a better way to identify which content we create (pages, videos, interactive quizzes, comparison charts, op ed articles, flash magic thingies) is adding the most value… Again, same strategy.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture? What was the difference here?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The cloud IPO market has also been very active with 32 IPOs vs. 17 in 2020. It’s worth noting though that while the number of IPOs increased, the companies were smaller and raised less capital than those last year. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. In the dot-com bubble economy, the investors used an IPO at product launch to take the money and run, before there was a track record of success or failure.) Building the sales channel and supporting the marketing can burn a lot of cash.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs. Whether you’re trying something new or planning to attack a more saturated vertical like beauty or fashion, if you don’t love what you’re doing, you’ll lose your motivation to keep creating.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was still a year away from its IPO. But first some background.) Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Its latest product was an oscilloscope, the HP 150a. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Um, he and his partner took Red Hat to an IPO early days, and Bob found himself with a lot of time and a lot of money, and a lot of people wanted to hear his story. People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in. Most of your listeners probably know what it is.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How do you sustain growth that precedes the highest IPO in history for a software company? Results from Snowflake’s ABM efforts post-IPO. Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. Keep doing what works. For cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake , that was ABM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. At any given point in time, which is the right solution?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”. In two weeks, Doctolib made the product self-serve and extensively deployed the solution, which you can hear more about in the short video below.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. Add to that the impact of their upcoming IPO - lots of angel investors and spin-off entrepreneurs are in the making. for their monetization needs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. ARD’s most famous investment was the $70,000 they put into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 for 77% of the company that was worth hundreds of millions by its 1968 IPO. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Blog at WordPress.com.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

That is where Libox , a new Tel Aviv-based startup offering a free service to share and store photos, videos and music, wants to disrupt the industry. Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. Different video formats.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

At face value, this advice seems very different from the message Graham sent just a few months ago, in the wake of Facebooks poor IPO performance : If it means new startups raise their first money on worse terms than they would have a few months ago, thats not the end of the world, because by historical standards valuations had been high.

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