2009 Acquisition Business Model Finance 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Board Control.
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. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. They have an opportunity ahead to build a billion dollar company.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 27, 2011
Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. On future occasions, whenever I expressed an interest to invest, the founders came back and told me that they had an acquisition offer on the table!
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
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