Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. Here’s why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. There are real ongoing costs of maintaining a public company. million in annual recurring costs as a result of being public. The costs of an aborted IPO are sizable, and may not be deferred to a later period or offering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2018

According to Investor's Business Daily , even though IPOs in 2018 through July were up nearly 39 percent from last year, the total of 115 companies so far is still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. There are real ongoing costs of maintaining a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. These can add millions to the cost of doing business. Do you need this for your image?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Consult your lawyer for details.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 31, 2010

– If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options. Companies are required to price their employee stock options close to the “market valuation&#.

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