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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Amazon’s low price strategy

The Equity Kicker

I just read the following story about how their low price ethos played out when they entered the DVD market in 1998. We had planned to match their 30% discount, and now we were being out-priced by the market leader on our first day of operation, and just before the heart of the holiday sales season to boot (it was November, 1998).

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Reversing Unintended Consequences From Regulation is Critical to Restoring Small Company IPO’s

Pascal's View

years in 1998 to 9.6 Washington needs to recognize, first and foremost, that entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, institutional investors, market markers, and underwriters all seek to be rewarded for committing risk capital (which includes sweat equity) to making these highly risky ventures successful. years as of year-end 2008.

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19 Funding Resources for New and Existing Businesses

Up and Running

To help you secure the capital you need for your business, we’ve compiled a list of the funding resources that every entrepreneur should look into. Equity Crowdfunding. Equity crowdfunding takes the crowdfunding process to the next level. See Also Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding? Crowdfunding Sites.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. What may appear to be a hypertechnical set of amendments to obscure code sections ( Section 12(g)(1)(B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 , anyone?) Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. My hunch is that most good software engineers only work for cash because they don’t feel that working for equity is worth the risk of failure. I absolutely want cofounders when the time comes. But conceptually it does ring of some truth.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g., donating to your campaign).