Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

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). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. My invention and prototype works, but I need funding to continue.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back, it is relatively rare. Increasing government regulations. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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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). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. angel investor business entrepreneur startup stage VC'

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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. Extensive government reporting and compliance rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. I guess it’s no wonder that banks are struggling these days with their public image. investment bank entrepreneur startup funding IPO' Marty Zwilling.

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

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

But if the initial jargon has got you down, just KISS (keep it simple, stupid), and check out these nine business acronyms that you need to know. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, are the set of rules that govern financial accounting in businesses. A demonarchy is defined as a political system governed by a demon.

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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). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. My invention and prototype works, but I need funding to continue.”

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

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). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. My invention and prototype works, but I need funding to continue.”

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. Crowdfunding is an efficient way for entrepreneurs to raise seed capital," the editors wrote.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: At a time when transparency is so important to institutional investors, how can fiduciaries reconcile that there is limited information available with a private company?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Stock Quotes. more in Small Business. Live Chat Recap.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

. “ The few IPOs so far this year are drops of water in the desert, and those that are in the queue, while they represent outstanding companies, do not represent a sufficient number of companies to make a material difference for the institutional investors and the many entrepreneurs who have the most at stake. Share and Enjoy:

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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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For most startups, it’s no secret that a significant part of their long-term plans is to go public and become the next market darling for investors. If you use history as a guide, I’m afraid you’ll find no real consensus on the matter of when to go public with your startup.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If an entrepreneur has a great business plan, a great team, but no money, they’re never going to get off the ground. If an entrepreneur has an okay idea, an okay team, and as much money as they’ve ever wanted, they can probably brute force their way to success. And for the most part, funding makes that possible.

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