Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Many Israeli companies build technologies which could be very valuable to the broader Middle East region, particularly in water tech, agriculture technology, and cybersecurity. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. We are entirely equity and profit free.”.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . 1) Generalizable Payments . At least not yet. Conclusion: .

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. equity debate. Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Dec 26, 2009).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1990-1998 13.3%

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. There are three forms in which a company can have something new and unique: 1) New technology (the most common form, examples are Twilio, Coin, Occipital). New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. trillion, it is by far the largest of its sort in the world and financed projects that in other settings may not have passed investment criteria screens. [3].

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. High burn-rates fueled by over investment – One of the most damning things that happened to the start-up markets in 97-00 and 05-08 was the overfunding of technology companies.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Headquartered in Kibbutz Shamir, Israel, Shamir Optical is a fast growing provider of innovative products and technology to the ophthalmic lens industry.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. What will most upset them is what they perceive as unfair treatment.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. ” (ix) The U.S.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I liked Yishan too (he has an incredible balance of technical acumen, managerial talent and emotional intelligence), felt that he would have the time to help me, and persuaded him to take on a 3-month part-time assignment to advise me on building our engineering team, in exchange for equity. Culture - a fun, collegial work atmosphere.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Private Equity. Don’t you just love these booming markets? Venture Capital.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

The force is bloated with overtime and over-policing in some areas, like the performative anti-terrorist presence on the Brooklyn Bridge that should get replaced with technology and under policing in others, like when it comes to curbing gun trafficking. But our police budget, which has grown by over 30% under de Blasio. Bike lanes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. It became brand building and culture building moment for the company. (21:41)

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). We focused too much on technology.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. It turned out that there was!

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. Other sources of capital. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. How does that usually work?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000.

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