Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

But we didn’t have infinite cash; we had just emerged from bankruptcy, and unless we could get customers to quickly understand why our products were great, we were headed there again.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. By comparison, traditional VC has a bankruptcy rate of 30-40%. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. the Untouched Vertical.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But Ford, with his emphasis on cash-flow, sort of had the last laugh earlier this year when GM and Chrysler declared bankruptcy while his company — under Alan Mullaly’s exceptional leadership — managed to avoid it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Lets Fix Everything that Was Broken At SuperMac we were excited to finally get out of the crummy tiltup we had occupied since the company emerged from bankruptcy. That’s when things went south. Now with cash in hand, we wanted to fix everything that seemed broken and annoying about our office environment.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

I got overwhelmed with e-mail that week and basically declared e-mail bankruptcy, so I didn’t respond. However, it’s unlikely that the venture capital machine that funds out-there ideas, like the type that would pour hundreds of millions into Elon Musk’s fever dream ideas, would find anything bus-like to be cool.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

In three and a half years SuperMac’s market share went from 11% to 68%, as we went from bankruptcy to $150 million in sales. The results spoke for themselves: Not one black-market board ever appeared, and the press was satisfied with our “customer value and product family” explanation.

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