Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. Even lifetime entrepreneurs can decide that enough is enough. Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. You retain ownership and enjoy the annuity.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

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. In my view, the key reasons that IPOs have lost their luster from an entrepreneur and investor perspective include the following: The US IPO process seems broken. Marty Zwilling.

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IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 242

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Friends and family hopefully believe fully in you, and just want you to show them success.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

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.

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IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

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. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.

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IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Friends and family hopefully believe fully in you, and just want you to show them success.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. Network with other entrepreneurs. A successful entrepreneur-investor agreement better be the beginning of a long-term relationship.

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Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 119

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. At stake: Power itself. Enlarge Image Close.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2012

Examples of firms that historically have been Bankable Advisors could include Goldman Sachs (initial public offerings), McKinsey (strategy consulting), and IBM (computing). that caters to a demanding New York clientele. A good example of this is Ernst & Young’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award.

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IPO Initial Public Offering Naming Reputation 154

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. by Janet Chase, Kaufman Rossin.

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Valuation Stock Options CPA Merger 100

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities. Share and Enjoy:

IPO 40

IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

There has been a multi-year move among auditors, driven by demand for greater transparency in understanding the process behind the book valuation of private, illiquid investments, to bring more of a “mark to market” approach in the way the general partners of private equity partnerships value their portfolios.

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Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31