Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting. Increasing government regulations. Marty Zwilling.

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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). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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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). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2018

My most recent book, The Startup Way , is all about the methods and tools big corporations, government, and non-profits can use to innovate: think of it as Lean Startup at scale. One of the stories I tell in The Startup Way comes from the Federal Government. Investment bankers are staking out your house.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

The United Kingdom is seeing a surge of creative energy from young entrepreneurs bubble up from all corners of the island. Tommy Williams is a young entrepreneur that followed a familiar path by many like him, he wanted to solve a simple problem he noticed. The new generation is made up of a diverse set of creative minds with a vision.

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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). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

First, the investment banker has to be pleased with all of the prices of stocks and the number of shares that will be offered. Your significant investors will govern everything you make and do after the IPO. It takes lots of preparation. What about the evaluation of the company and how investors perceive the company?

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

” The story includes quotes from former National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) chairman Dixon Doll of DCM and investment banker Paul Deninger, who is the vice-chairman of Jefferies & Co. ”, written by Mark Veverka, asserting that “venture capitalists want to widen the playing field for the underwriters.”

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

The rules of the game for the start-up's ultimate goal, accessing the public market through an IPO, were set by the investment bankers and sales desk traders on Wall Street. And it seems the US Government is determined to facilitate this by pouring billions to stimulate the sector.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Act in 1958 guaranteed that for every dollar a bank or financial institution invested in a new company, the U.S. government would invest three (up to $300,000.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2023

She is a “recovering” investment banker; entrepreneur; speaker; economic, business, and financial commentator; content developer; and a New York Times bestselling author. We saw with the Twitter files and, and information coming out of Facebook that the government's actually coordinating on some of these cases.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2012

However, he fails to question Cai on how the Chinese government is preventing Chinese equivalents of blocked U.S. When you can behave yourself and self-administrate, the government will be happy to step by and rest,” Cai adds. Kuhn’s access to a handful of head honchos in China Inc also reveals the tenacity of Chinese entrepreneurs.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We now live in an anarconomy where entrepreneurs are making counter moves to disrupt the status quo so they can redefine commercial landscapes. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? As you'll hear, BA became an entrepreneur without expecting to have to address such questions, but that's not how it's turned out. What are institutions for? Can we build better ones? It's extremely difficult. And let me give you an example.

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