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How the Market Ruined Twitter

Harvard Business Review

For its first four years, Twitter was able to keep the servers running thanks to mainly to $150 million in funding from venture capitalists and angel investors. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Could Twitter have chosen not to follow the standard VC-to-IPO path that has brought it to this pass?

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.