Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

In the old days, every entrepreneur planned on taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. business model is broken. In the 1990s the U.S. million a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

While venture-backed startups struggle to find relief amidst a backlog of richly priced ventures, some tech companies are defying expectations and going public with resounding triumphs. While rapid growth may be enticing, it is essential to maintain a sustainable business model that ultimately leads to profitability.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes.

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