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. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. So what’s left?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Anything too experimental runs the risk of diminishing sales once the curiosity factor wears off, especially if it takes some time to get the food and your kitchen processes right. ” Organic marketing and sales options. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. Promotions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Executive team. Exit strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Check out the sales podcast where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and in big business in effective and ethical ways. Just like adding a partner is pretty tricky, but it does work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Executive team. Exit strategy.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Executive team. Exit strategy.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Executive team. Exit strategy.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If the innovation threats the company faces do not match these, the corporation may need a different approach to addressing the disruption such as making a large scale acquisition, e.g., VMWare’s acquisition of Nicira , merger, or outright selling itself, e.g., EMC’s sale to Dell.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. The system worked in predictable and profitable ways.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth. The third is high gross margins. Of course not.

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