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. At the same time, acquisition opportunities will expand as large existing companies, unable to keep up with the pace of innovation in these emerging Internet markets, will “innovate&# by buying startups.
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
VC is a “get rich slow” business, because most VC Partners will not see a carry check for 5-10 years, after waiting for both liquidity events and for LPs to be paid first. Prehype , Rocket Internet , and numerous others. I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. – Go public.
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Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Nevertheless, choosing to defer basic corporate housekeeping items can be disastrous in some circumstances, as when the failure to spend a few thousand dollars on legal fees to clarify IP ownership and equity arrangements comes back to bite a successful company to the tune of millions of dollars on the eve of a liquidity event.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. And a month later the Internet bubble burst.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
Most quality advisors know that chances of a liquidity event are rare. We strongly recommend you do not copy and paste something you found on the Internet. One of the biggest myths that startups have is that you do not have to pay advisors, or you can pay them in future-value stock. What is the value of free?
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). of MySpace, Inc.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Two months after that, a French game company offered $1.5
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