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.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. 10 Steps to reinvent media strategy – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
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Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). It is just four-years old?—?for
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), Was this a function of “too much money chasing too few deals” as many pundits claimed?
Pascal's View
AUGUST 21, 2011
This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Goldman release a report on us.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. It was a disaster.
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