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10 Reasons Why IPO Is No Longer A Good Startup Exit

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

But for all this to happen, a really key point is to have a really good prospectus. A prospectus is what gets the initial interest from people. A prospectus is actually very easy to put together. Daryl: Yaro, about how many visitors a month do you have to Entrepreneurs Journey now? That’s a really good website.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

He shares that on the day of Baidu’s IPO—usually one of an entrepreneur’s most exhilirating days of his entire life—he sat at his desk terrified. Let me share a funny story which illustrates a CEO really owning delivering against results. This story is from Robin Li, CEO of Baidu. and “can the CEO get the company to do it?

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Is Winter coming for startups?

VC Cafe

Like in the Ant and the Grasshopper fable, I would encourage entrepreneurs to keep chugging forward, but there are enough indicators to take a breath and think about what if winter comes early. So, is if it’s business as usual and the markets continue to go up is there even a reason to change anything?

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

David Teten

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . Investor prospectus . Kauffman Foundation: Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers. So what is Revenue Based Investing? Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro.

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Mathematical vs. Economic Dilution of Startup Equity: Thinner Slices of an Extra-Large Pizza

Gust

If you read the “ Dilution ” section of an IPO prospectus , you’ll see that the opposite happens to investors in the new public shares. As a young law firm associate learning the ropes , one approach I found helpful was to learn and contrast the concepts of mathematical vs. economic dilution of equity.

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Thinking of exiting your business? Explore every option

The Next Web

Prepare a detailed prospectus. The prospectus will lay out the story and details of your business and help generate interest in it before listing, so it’s important that you get this right. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' This will require plenty of time and resources, so be sure to prepare adequately.