Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. We believed that by putting full motion video (i.e. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy. And at the time it was a plausible scenario.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Reply mikev , on June 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm Said: What happened to Convergent Technologies work ethic and business ethics after the merger with Unisis? I cannot say that I am there yet – but most goals worth having take a long time to fulfill. Sounds like things went not so well after that.

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