Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. For example, Acquia runs its Drupal infrastructure on more than 8,000 AWS instances and serves more than 27 billion hits a month (or 333TB of bandwidth). Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO?
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.
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The Next Web
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. An IPO requires special preparation of its own, some of it complex.
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.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
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. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. First silicon of the MIPS RISC processor.)
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The brand of the firm matters, but you want to know exactly what partners you are going to work with, and you want to talk to companies they specifically have worked on, to understand how much bandwidth you’re going to get.
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.
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