Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. They kind of invented this business model.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. So what about the skepticism?

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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.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? Surely, among the tens of thousands of effective and honest consultants running about, a significant number of them are well positioned to help startups – right? There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. infoChachkie.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

How To Think About The Future. 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). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. He made it very profitable.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Santa Cruz and had a few things to say about innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies. I gave the Alumni Day talk at U.C.

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