Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Expo SF (May.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). 2. Information is everywhere.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 4, 2009
Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.
Agile VC
AUGUST 1, 2012
The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.
Agile VC
APRIL 13, 2012
And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. In the 20 th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.
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