Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2023
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 22, 2020
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.
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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. But like all bubbles, these initial IPO’s will attract companies with less stellar financials, the quality IPO pipeline will diminish rapidly, and the bubble will pop. Carpe Diem. Wide Adoption.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2018
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.
Growthink Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. The great thing is that via the Internet we CAN copy the principles of the best of them – Zappos’ and Mind Valley’s and scores of others are online for all to see.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 4, 2014
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 13, 2016
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.
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