Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations. The founders. Today unicorn boards have a lot less leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still less than half the rate of 15 years ago. Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. million, in part due to cost-cutting (Eyeblaster says it “focused on cutting costs given the uncertain global economic environment” during the first half of 2009). By contrast, sales had jumped 43 percent the year before.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. As a result, D&O insurance responds largely to defense costs only, never paying the difference in stock prices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. All strategy and operational moves become public.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

My remarks explained the relationship between the long-term decline in America’s global competitiveness, the impact of the capital markets crisis on new investment in research and development, and specifically addressed Senate Bill 515 , the pending U.S. The cost of filing patents has increased dramatically.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. Now the cost of entry to the Party is rising. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

or Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures the moment I started a new business that I felt had global potential. My goal is simply to point out that some of the most prominent myths Silicon Valley and the startup ecosystem have invented to propel the industry to global heights are just that: myths. And at what cost? Not at all?—?although

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

One of the key objectives of the recently passed JOBS act is that it will “open” the now 11 years and counting "shut” window for initial public offerings. Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. companies went public. Hopefully, it will help.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Low Cost Franchises.

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