K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). Google’s first business model wasn’t based on advertising.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

business model is broken. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.” But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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