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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Too many startups have experienced early financial losses and technical glitches, like Uber and the Zynga IPO a while back, which antagonized individual investors and startup executives as well.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb.

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10 Negatives That Still Make Going Public A High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Yet they still see warning lights in many geographies around the world, due to political uncertainties. Startups going public are laid open to competitors and critics.

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Taking Your Startup Public Is Fraught With Negatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc. At maturity, which is typically 3 to 5 years, any unpaid amount of the cap is due. Investor prospectus . He said, . “[W]e

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