Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

My remarks explained the relationship between the long-term decline in America’s global competitiveness, the impact of the capital markets crisis on new investment in research and development, and specifically addressed Senate Bill 515 , the pending U.S. The cost of filing patents has increased dramatically.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead of a startup going public six to eight years after it was founded to raise capital to grow the company, today companies can to $50M+ funding rounds is a deferring the need for an Initial Public Offering to 10 or more years after a company is founded. Today that’s less true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand. Funding risk. Scalability.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s common for SaaS start-ups to be bought by large enterprises for the technology/product. The acquiring company can just plug that product into their existing distribution channel to help round out their current product suite and grab more market share (and some might argue that even this is happening less frequently).

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Continuously improve your company’s products and technologies by focusing on the few truly strategic core platforms. Is a marketing plan important? Yes, cash flow is king and every start-up wants to achieve greatness or hit a sizable IPO, initial public offering sooner than later. Is high yield important?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. Eyeblaster pulled out of its initial IPO filing in October 2008 citing the “market conditions&# as a reason for the delay. Its main shareholder is Sycamore Technologies Ventures, which owns 33.9 million last year, from $6.2

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just this week, entrepreneur and investor Tim O’Reilly wrote a powerful piece in which he challenged Hoffman’s blitzscaling strategy, which often encourages companies to grow as fast as possible by raising venture capital to dominate new markets, a strategy leveraged by Uber among other unicorns (i.e. Certainly. But is it correct?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. 222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. Bubble 2.0 $4.2

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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