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7 Costs To Consider Before Taking Your Startup Public

Startup Professionals Musings

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. They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Public companies bring new expectations of benefits.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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10 Real World Hazards With Taking Your Startup Public

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur planned on taking their startup public, and making it big. 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.

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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How Long Should It Take For a Startup to Succeed?

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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7 Reasons To Reconsider A Planned IPO Exit Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Most startup founders voluntarily exit or are pushed out, and the fun is gone. Public companies bring new expectations of benefits.

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Can You Beat Amazon In The Race To Overnight Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6