Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 26, 2020
Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of a few companies several years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 29, 2022
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. Thus, today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies versus an IPO, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 26, 2018
Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of a few companies several years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 21, 2014
They range from “the sky is falling” to “the IPO market window is closing” to “there will be more stupid television shows about Silicon Valley” (I prefer Game of Thrones and 24, thank you very much.). In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public. Suddenly the IPO market window closed.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2011
It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2017
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Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33 We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms. And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019.
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