Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year. does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S. ii) Clearing the backlog in the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2016

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Now the mistakes of large companies like Enron and BP have set a new image of public companies as being led by greedy and uncaring executives.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. Net Operating Profit After Tax, or NOPAT, is a performance measure that reveals a company’s after-tax profit. NOPAT does not equal net income. What You Thought It Meant: Giant Awesome Animatronic Porcupine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

If a C corp generates net operating losses rather than net income, these are carried forward to offset future corporate taxable income. A C corp is also the easiest type of entity to take public in an initial public offering.

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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. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 In the 1990s the U.S. million a year.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Their miniscule floats are tightly managed to artificially inflate the offering price and maintain it briefly; then, a slow (or sometimes fast) descent to earth begins. The locked-up founders may never realize more than a tiny fraction of their paper net worth on that day they smile and ring the opening bell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. Net income did however increase to $9.8 It requires months of preparation from management and a tiring roadshow process, in order to convince potential investors on the viability of the company and its plans for growth. million in 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. There is no “exchange,” so you can’t sell the stock at will.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. There is no “exchange,” so you can’t sell the stock at will.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. There is no “exchange,” so you can’t sell the stock at will.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. There is no “exchange,” so you can’t sell the stock at will.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Qualtrics, a company purchased for $8 billion by SAP in late 2018 just days before a planned initial public offering, grew rapidly for a decade before taking in VC funding and is only the latest example of a company that found most of its success without VC firms behind the scenes.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Their task was to draft a set of recommendations for how the nation's "IPO crisis," as some call it, could be resolved - a post-bubble lull in the number of startup companies in all sectors that proceed to the initial public offering stage and go public. was created by firms less than five years old.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt now control nearly 66% of the voting power.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If and when a startup gets big enough, it can pursue an initial public offering (IPO) to get listed on the stock market, and raise funds publicly. At the same time, entrepreneurs could raise funds in an open public way without having to go through the complexities of an initial public offering (IPO).

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