2012 California Government IPO 
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 4, 2021
It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.
Steve Blank
JUNE 24, 2013
Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?
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online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration.
Steve Blank
JUNE 24, 2013
Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. And then small businesses start to use it.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting. Sound familiar?
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