Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #4- 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.
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Seeing Both Sides
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. Of the 43 companies that achieved > $500M in value, 22 were life sciences (plus materials science), 16 enterprise technology and 5 consumer technology.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. immersive technologies have come so far in the past year. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards? How long has this event been going on?
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 29, 2018
As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having rather dramatically. We are glad we did.
Diego Basch
AUGUST 14, 2013
I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). create an index in which every word points to all the web pages containing it, just like one at the end of a textbook.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 21, 2015
In 2013, Nielsen reported in its “Trust in Advertising” study that online banner ads are the least trusted form of advertising among consumers falling even behind traditional ads like in the newspapers or magazines. Still, fake dialog boxes got many more clicks than regular banners, which users had already started to ignore in 1997. ”.
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