Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Angels expect at least a working prototype and a hint of market acceptance (traction) before investing. The target market better be a big one, like over a billion dollars, with a double-digit growth rate, large enough to absorb multiple entrants. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead of a startup going public six to eight years after it was founded to raise capital to grow the company, today companies can to $50M+ funding rounds is a deferring the need for an Initial Public Offering to 10 or more years after a company is founded. That made sense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these traditional banks, probably a commercial bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these traditional banks, probably a commercial bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Being public makes the company more visible to shareholders and potential acquirers, and provides a presumption of future liquidity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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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. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still less than half the rate of 15 years ago. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We can trace the Midwest’s renaissance to Sprout Social’s successful initial public offering (IPO) , which saw the company debut on public markets at a price of $17 per share and rise to over $120 per share today. The national labor market has evolved since the pandemic. Today, Sprout is a $6.6

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Initial Public Offering (IPO). ” This is because, when a company decides to sell itself to another company, the buyer will often incorporate or merge the services of that company into their own product or service offerings. See Also 3 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Exit Strategies. Management buyout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. But it’s always a risky proposition, probably well beyond the risk of the commodities market, since there are so many unknowns and few controls.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Startups need funding to bring their product to market and get to profitability. A successful startup can yield a pot of gold if there’s an initial public offering. You’ll need an excellent marketing campaign, with a special emphasis on social media. But how do you go about finding startup investors?

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The good news is there is an Initial Public Offering or IPO market, said Daniel Klausner, managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers based in New York. “At But overall the IPO market in the U.S. IPO Market is Seeing a Slowdown in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills. September has been a great month.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Being public makes the company more visible to shareholders and potential acquirers, and provides a presumption of future liquidity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. IPO market. Despite the recent uptick in IPO activity, over the last several years, initial public offerings in U.S.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

At first glance, Hubspot and Moz are very similar companies: both are popular marketing platforms, use web-based subscription models, and primarily target the SMB market (although larger brands use both). Since investors (whether private or public) like to see growth, Hubspot’s story is more impressive from that standpoint.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

One thing is clear: mobile gaming – an industry whose market value is projected to exceed $54 billion in 2015 – is highly lucrative for the brains behind the games. Furthermore, in this modern era of imbedded advertisements and low-priced add-ons, free games provide a handsome reward to the creators. And such business is very profitable.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 2, 2013

The world not ending on December 21, 2012, wasn’t the only memorable marketing moment in 2012. CEO Marissa Mayer ’s announcement of her plans to transform the company into a mobile-and technology-focused company bode well for marketers in 2013. Some of the memorable marketing events of 2012 surprised us, but many inspired us.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

With the IPO window closed, growth funding severely dwindled and multiples down as a result of the public market, unicorns face tough choices in 2024. M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. and RealEstate.com.au

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. by Jeff Van Gulick , Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines Practice Leader, HUB International. Do you have the right international coverage?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. Eyeblaster pulled out of its initial IPO filing in October 2008 citing the “market conditions&# as a reason for the delay. Eyeblaster is trying to raise $115 million by selling stock. . —

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

In this article, we delve into the world of tech-ish companies and explore the seismic impact of initial public offerings (IPOs) on their growth and profitability. Despite not being a traditional tech company, Cava’s IPO shattered expectations and sent shockwaves through the market.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

With limited personnel and so many things to accomplish such as developing your product or technology, getting approval to sell or promote your goods, developing your marketing plan, establishing your sales channel, building inventory along with executing the business plan can be outright over whelming to so few employees.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

… Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft, capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. Microsft, Apple, Google, Cisco—have been funded by venture capital.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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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. The public is not an easy master to satisfy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. But it’s always a risky proposition, probably well beyond the risk of the commodities market, since there are so many unknowns and few controls.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Being public makes the company more visible to shareholders and potential acquirers, and provides a presumption of future liquidity.

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