Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. — 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.
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. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating.
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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. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) My first IPO at Convergent. So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window. steve MIchael W. ,
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.
infochachkie.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. Interview: Benjamin Satterfield, Co-Founder & CEO TestFlight. |.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 4, 2009
Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.
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