Finance Stock Technology 
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 19, 2025
A reserve fund provides peace of mind and reduces reliance on costly financing options during tough times, keeping the business on solid ground. Startups can use just-in-time (JIT) inventory systems to order stock only when needed. Securing flexible financing options can help bridge these gaps without putting the business at risk.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
Finance where needed. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. We need some visibility. Let’s make sure each has enough cash.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens).
Steve Blank
JULY 11, 2017
The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. In the last decade, technology investors realized that these professional CEOs were effective at maximizing, but not finding, product cycles.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless. Was it safe?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. This only becomes noticeable in down markets.
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