Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. In 2001 and 2002 I learned a brutal set of lessons, including experiencing that $100 million of paper money going to $0 when Interliant went bankrupt.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

” This was around 2001. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … I met these two athletes … one had a little bit of stint in the NBA, the other one had just graduated college and played overseas a little bit. I was like, “… It’s going to be big.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. Then the risk of that product succeeding is lessened by network effects made feasible by app stores and digital distribution, driving up customer adoption. Everything's better with the lean model.

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Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

For example, if a company has raised $20M in venture financings by issuing non-participating preferred stock , the holders of common stock will not receive any proceeds from an M&A transaction unless the transaction value exceeds $20M. The company must further determine which, if any triggers, will accelerate vesting and to what degree.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. We do that primarily through leading financings. They know that in a Power Law distributed business, if they create value, it is going to be an exceptionally large quantum of value. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. That scares me.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Finance Jobs |.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side. As people work much more remotely and in distributed teams, there's this very unsolved problem around knowledge management.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. I never want renters to find themselves in my situation – scared, displaced and worried about my finances. #17) Devastating Event. I started my business for one simple reason – I wanted to prevent other people from experiencing something that almost devastated my financial future.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Even though they started with $250,00 they used what is called “negative cash converting cycle financing.” They came up with the company’s core vision: to help solve distribution for startups and eventually all digital goods.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 17, 2016

I’ve seen this before, as one of my first investments ever in 2000 was leading the first financing in SmarterChild , where that product and company faced many of these same questions. Given that it was 2000-2001, SmarterChild launched on the then dominant (only?) What did they see and do?

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