A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. It’s not about the financing path, it’s about what you’ve decided to build. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Is your company building something of lasting value?

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

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.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82