YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2018
The success of luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter and its merger with Yoox, as well as the increased visibility of platforms like Farfetch and the like, have proved them wrong. Luxury brands indeed believed that affluent consumers wouldn’t spend more than a certain amount for high-end goods online.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names.
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VC Adventure
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Interestingly (and somewhat different than other markets) the Boulder start-up scene is both very distributed (there are a large number of leaders in the Boulder start-up community) and collaborative. We’ve all seen the global statistics – August was an unusually strong month for mergers and acquisitions.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. Google wants to use the data to create new flight search tools. This is often in the 5-7% range. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. -ITA
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there! Of course not.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2009
After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search.
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