Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. percent to 23.4 percent last year.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). I reviewed a good summary of the advantages and disadvantages of an IPO exit strategy for startups in a widely-used textbook “ Entrepreneurship ,” by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters, and Dean Shepherd. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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IPO Founder Exit Strategy Investment Bankers 224

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2019

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Exit Strategy Employee Business Plan Management 113

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Modest profitability. - No introduction is required here.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. I made a pile of intros and didn’t think much more of it.

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Venture Capital Exit Strategy Angel Investor Deal Structure 136

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

For a clear example, see the following list of 17 companies that went public and raised $50 million or less between 1971 and 1996: These companies only raised $367 million in the public markets and they account for 470, 000 U.S. The IPO chasm that exists today is the result of the death of the sub $50 million IPO. jobs today.

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IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40