A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.
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K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. million businesses in 2014.
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 We should also remember that Amazon went public at a time (Q2 1997) when many companies were pulling IPO filings because the market was beating up Internet valuations. or a market cap of $800M.
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