Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews.

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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. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. By the time the company gets to the Nation stage, it’s either public or operating much like a publicly-traded company. Ironically, this sense of stability introduces a new set of risks.

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