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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

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Among the findings are: SPAC dilution amounts to roughly 50% of the cash ultimately delivered to the companies brought public. In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Naming a Business. Internet and Online Business. 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. Besides the future potential earnings youre forgoing, youre also diluting your own ownership in the company.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral.

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On the Road to Recap:

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The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Back in 1999, if a company raised $30mm before an IPO, that was considered a large historic raise. ” Go public.

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How Many Investors are Too Many?

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You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. I know that a lot of VCs had roadkill in the Internet Video 1.0 The Perils of Many. Here’s my guide to how to do that.

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