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. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

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. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Parker, for example, often sealed his agreements with a handshake rather than on paper.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc. million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Typical first-time SV entrepreneurs are not millionaires, so let’s say you have 100k in the bank (maybe you’ve made some money from stock options). Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Stock Options Vesting 73