Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 The reality is that the super vast majority of liquidity events are M&A and the majority of those are in the under $100M range. as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 287

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. If the company is moderately successful, growing and has great prospects for the future than a small liquidity event will help founders & venture capitalists to be aligned.

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The Startup Lottery I need to stop here and say this: with a “hot idea&# startup the odds are overwhelmingly against ever getting funding, much less having a liquidity event that puts money in your pocket. But you can build a very lucrative income if people in the waste management industry need your app.

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Marketing Software Review Technical Review Startup 50