Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Carpe Diem.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 23, 2012
Atari and Nintendo have now borne witness to two revolutionary inventions that are changing the landscape of video game design: the Internet and the smart device. The Internet provides a completely unique platform for new video games. Furthermore, this same generation that grew up with SpaceWar!, Online Gaming.
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crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 3, 2011
Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle.
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. POST A JOB.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. INTERNET BUSINESSES.
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