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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

But we had a term sheet !!! It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

But we had a term sheet !!! It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Is the Unicorn Endangered or Extinct?

Professor VC

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. Sorry about that.