Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We are all more reachable through powerful and mobile personal computer devices, and the world is more and more connected with the Internet of Things (IoT). Investors measure their success by looking at the internal rate of return (IRR). Brands are speaking through rather than to consumers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. First, the shift away from desktop computers to mobile devices meant that Intel’s power-hungry x86 processors weren’t suitable. But it’s not over for Intel.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. It provides users in emerging markets mobile access to their financial lives, who were previously typically not served by financial institutions. Firm revenues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

My fourth investment, and the first one I led, was into a mobile applications company, which was also ahead of its time and never truly understood its market. It, too, went down the tubes.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

His latest venture, Bharosa, was sold to Oracle for a 6X multiple in 3 years to his angel investors, a sweet close to triple digit IRR. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. MBA Mondays: Guest Post From Donna White.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

God had to have somebody willing to tweet, blog and yet take care of the portfolio CEOs, run at double speed to prevent cash challenges, ahead of the economic downturns and yet stop on mid-field and race to raise another fund when he sees the first smoke from an exit with a positive IRR. So, God made a VC!

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