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Agile VC
APRIL 30, 2019
2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations.
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Instagram hadn’t built a true business (e.g. Growth IPOs Are Back. Value of Media vs E-Commerce vs Premium Services.
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Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.).
Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2011
In 1960’s and ‘70’s few MBA’s would give up a lucrative career in management, finance or Wall Street to join a bunch of technical lunatics. This all changed in 1980 with the Genentech IPO. In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. Large companies execute known business models.
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). Board Control.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Go on an agile diet quickly. Great post! You do a great job articulating. Expo SF (May.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 26, 2012
F or more of Duncan Davidson's insights - along with those of five other top-tier VCs - download Scott Fulton's exclusive 14-page report: " Growing Your Business In The Modern Economy: 6 VCs Weigh In.". There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. Everything's better with the lean model.
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